Reg. No.

Question Paper Code : 70772

B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATIONS, NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2021.

Fourth/Fifth/Sixth/Seventh Semester

Civil Engineering

MA 6459 — NUMERICAL METHODS

(Common to Aeronautical Engineering/Agriculture Engineering/Electrical and

Electronics Engineering/Electronics and Instrumentation
Engineering/Geoinformatics Engineering/Instrumentation and Control
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Technology/Petrochemical Technology/Plastic Technology/Polymer
Technology/Textile Chemistry/Textile Technology)

(Regulation 2013)

Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks

Answer ALL questions.

PART A — (10 × 2 = 20 marks)

1. What is the criterion for the convergence of Newton-Raphson method?

2. Give two direct methods to solve a system of linear equations.

3. Given y0 = 3 , y1 = 12 , y2 = 81 , y3 = 200 , y4 = 100 . Find Δ4 y0 .

4. Distinguish between Newton divided difference interpolation and Lagrange’s

interpolation.

5. Write down the general quadrature formula for equidistance ordinates.

6. Write down the forward difference formulae to compute the first two
derivatives at x = x 0 .

7. Compare Single-step method and Multi-step method.

8. Write down the Milne’s predictor and corrector formulas.

9. Write down the finite difference scheme for solving y ′′ + x + y = 0 ;
y (0) = y (1) = 0 .

10. Derive explicit finite difference scheme for ut = uxx .

PART B — (5 × 16 = 80 marks)

11. (a) (i) Find the largest eigenvalue and the corresponding eigenvector of a
1 6 1 
 
matrix  1 2 0  . (8)
0 0 3
 
(ii) Using Gauss Jordan method find the inverse of a matrix
4 1 2
 
 2 3 − 1 . (8)
1 − 2 2 
 
Or
(b) (i) Apply Gauss-Seidal method to solve the equations (8)
28 x + 4 y − z = 32
x + 3 y + 10z = 24
2x + 17 y + 4 z = 35.
(ii) Find the root of 4 x − e x = 0 that lies between 2 and 3 by Newton-
Raphson method. (8)

12. (a) (i) Find an approximate polynomial for f (x ) using Lagrange’s

interpolation for the following data : (8)
x: 0 1 2 3
y = f (x) : 2 3 12 147
(ii) Find the value of y at x = 21 from the data given below. (8)
x: 20 23 26 29
y : 0.3420 0.3907 0.4384 0.4848
Or

(b) (i) Given the tables :

x: 5 7 11 13 17
y = f (x) : 150 392 1452 2366 5202
Evaluate f (9) using Newton’s divided difference formula. (8)
(ii) Fit a cubic spline from the given table.
x: 1 2 3
f (x) : –8 –1 19
Compute y (1.5) and y (1) using cubic spline. (8)

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13. (a) (i) Using backward difference, find y ′(2.2) and y ′′(2.2) from the
following table : (6)
x: 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 2.2
y : 4.0552 4.9530 6.0496 7.3891 9.0250

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(ii) The following table gives the values of y = . Take h = 0.5 ,
1 + x2
1
1
0.25, 0.125 and use Romberg’s method to compute 1+ x
0
2
dx .

Hence deduce an approximate value of π . (10)

x: 0 0.125 0.25 0.375 0.5 0.675 0.75 0.875 1
y : 1 0.9846 0.9412 0.8767 0.8 0.7191 0.64 0.5664 0.5

Or
1 1
1 dx dy
(b) (i) Using Simpson’s
3
rule, evaluate   1 + xy
0 0
with h = k = 0.25 . (8)

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(ii) Evaluate  log
0
10 (1 + x ) dx by three points Gauss quadrature

formula. (8)

14. (a) (i) Using Taylor series method, compute the value of y (0.2) correct to
dy
3 decimal places from = 1 − 2xy given that y (0) = 0 . (8)
dx

(ii) Using modified Euler’s method, find y (0.1) and y (0.2) for the
dy
given equation = x 2 + y 2 , given that y (0) = 1 . (8)
dx

Or

(b) (i) Find the value of y (1.1) using Runge-Kutta method of 4th order for
dy
the given equation = y 2 + xy; y (1) = 1 . (8)
dx

(ii) Using Adam’s method find y (0.4 ) given that,

dy xy
= , y (0) = 1, y (0.1) = 1.01, y (0.2) = 1.022, y (0.3) = 1.023 . (8)
dx 2

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15. (a) (i) Given the values of u( x , y ) on the boundary of the square in fig.
evaluate the function u( x , y ) satisfying the Laplace equation
∇2u = 0 at the pivotal points of this fig. by Gauss Seidel method.
(8)
1000 1000
1000 1000
u1 u2
2000 500

2000
u3 u4
0

1000 0
500 0

∂u ∂ 2u
(ii) Solve the equation = subject to the condition
∂t ∂x 2
u( x , 0) = sin πx , 0 ≤ x < 1 ; u(0, t ) = u(1, t ) = 0 using Crank-Nicolson
method. (8)
Or

(b) (i) Solve the Poisson’s equation ∇2u = 8x 2 y2 for the square mesh of
fig. with u( x , y ) = 0 on the boundary and mesh length = 1. (8)

u1 u2 u1

u2 u3 u2
X
u1 u2 u1

(ii) Evaluate the Pivotal values of the equation utt = 16uxx taking
Δx = 1 upto t = 1.25 . The boundary conditions are
2
u(0, t ) = u(5, t ) = ut ( x , 0) = 0 and u( x , 0) = x (5 − x ) . (8)

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