• Title: Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering - A Beginner's Guide
• Author(s) Hans Fangohr
• Publisher: University of Southampton (2024);
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• eBook: PDF (267 pages)
• Language: English
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This book summarises a number of core ideas relevant to Computational Engineering and Scientific Computing using Python. The emphasis is on introducing some basic Python (programming) concepts that are relevant for numerical algorithms. The later chapters touch upon numerical libraries such as numpy and scipy each of which deserves much more space than provided here. We aim to enable the reader to learn independently how to use other functionality of these libraries using the available documentation (online and through the packages itself).

This open book is out of copyright. You can download Introduction to Python for Computational Science and Engineering ebook for free in PDF format (2.9 MB).

• Hans Fangohr is a Professor of Computational Modelling within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.

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