COMPLEX ANALYSIS AND SPECIAL FUNCTIONS
IV Semester: ECE
Course Code Category Hours / Week Credits Maximum Marks
L T P C CIA SEE Total
AHSC12 Foundation
3 1 0 4 40 60 100
Contact Classes: 45 Tutorial Classes: 15 Practical Classes: Nil Total Classes: 60
Prerequisite: Basic Principles of complex functions
I. COURSEOVERVIEW:
The course focuses on more advanced Engineering Mathematics topics which provide with the relevant
mathematical tools required in the analysis of problems in engineering and scientific professions. The course
includes complex functions and differentiation, complex integration, power series expansion of complex
function and special functions. The mathematical skills derived from this course form a necessary base to
analytical and design concepts encountered in the program.
II. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
The course will enable the students to learn:
I. The applications of complex variable and conformal mapping in two dimensional complex potential theories.
II. The fundamental calculus theorems and criteria for the independent path on contour integral used in problems of
engineering.
III. The concepts of special functions and its application for solving the partial differential equations in physics and
engineering.
IV. The mathematics of combinatorial enumeration by using generating functions and complex analysis for
understanding the numerical growth rates.
III. COURSE OUTOMES:
After successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
CO 1 Identify the fundamental concepts of analyticity and differentiability for finding Understand
complex conjugates, conformal mapping of complex transformations.
CO 2 Apply integral theorems of complex analysis and its consequences for the analytic Apply
function with derivatives of all orders in simple connected region.
CO 3 Extend the Taylor and Laurent series for expressing the function in terms of Apply
complex power series.
CO 4 Apply Residue theorem for computing definite integrals by using the singularities Apply
and poles of real and complex analytic functions over closed curves.
CO 5 Determine the characteristics of special functions for obtaining the proper and Apply
improper integrals for obtaining the proper and improper integrals.
CO 6 Apply the role of Bessel functions in the process of obtaining theseries solutions for Apply
second order differential equation
IV. SYLLABUS:
MODULE-I COMPLEX FUNCTIONS AND DIFFERENTIATION (09)
Complex functions differentiation and integration: Complex functions and its representation on argand plane,
concepts of limit, continuity, differentiability, analyticity, Cauchy-Riemann conditions and harmonic functions;
Milne-Thomson method. Bilinear Transformation.
MODULE -II COMPLEX INTEGRATION (09)
Line integral: Evaluation along a path and by indefinite integration; Cauchy’s integral theorem; Cauchy’s integral
formula; Generalized integral formula; Power series expansions of complex functions and contour Integration: Radius
of convergence.
MODULE -III POWER SERIES EXPANSION OF COMPLEX FUNCTION (09)
Expansion in Taylor’s series, Maclaurin’s series and Laurent series. Singular point; Isolated singular point; Pole of
order m; Essential singularity; Residue: Cauchy Residue Theorem.
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Evaluation of Residue by Laurent Series and Residue Theorem.
Evaluation of integrals of the type ,
MODULE -IV SPECIAL FUNCTIONS-I (09)
Improper integrals; Beta and Gamma functions: Definitions; Properties of Beta and Gamma function; Standard forms
of Beta functions; Relationship between Beta and Gamma functions.
MODULE -V SPECIAL FUNCTIONS-II (09)
Bessel’s Differential equation: Bessel function, properties of Bessel function, Recurrence relations of Bessel function,
Generating function and Orthogonality of Bessel function, Trigonometric expansions involving Besse function.
V. TEXT BOOKS
1. Kreyszig, “Advanced Engineering Mathematics”, John Wiley & Sons Publishers, 10 th Edition, 2010.
2. B. S. Grewal, “Higher Engineering Mathematics”, Khanna Publishers, 43 rd Edition, 2015.
V. REFERENCE BOOKS:
1. T.K.V Iyengar, B.Krishna Gandhi, “Engineering Mathematics - III”, S.Chand& Co., 12th Edition, 2015.
2. RK Jain & SRK Iyengar, “Advanced Engineering Mathematics”, Narosa Publishers, 5 th Edition, 2016.
VI. WEB REFERENCES:
1. http://www.efunda.com/math/math_home/math.cfm
2. http://www.ocw.mit.edu/resourcs/#Mathematics
3. http://www.sosmath.com
4. http://www.mathworld.wolfram.com
VII. E-TEXT BOOKS:
1. http://www.keralatechnologicaluniversity.blogspot.in/2015/06/erwin-kreyszig-advanced-engineering-
mathematics-ktu-ebook-download.html
2. http://www.faadooengineers.com/threads/13449-Engineering-Maths-II-eBooks
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