Credits -- 3 (3-0-0)
Term Offered -- Spring, even numbered years
- Description
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Introduction to problems in nonlinear partial differential equations;
nonlinear waves, reaction/diffusion equations.
Topics --
Systems of First Order Equations
characteristics
shocks
generalized solutions
Introduction to the Theory of Distributions
Dirac delta function
calculus of distributions
Green's Functions
method of images
eigenfunction expansions
Variational Methods
energy integrals
Rayleigh Ritz method
Galerkin's method
Integral Transforms
Fourier transform
Laplace transform