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- Subject: Nonlin. Part. Diff. Eqs.; PLEASE SUGGEST HOW TO SOLVE!
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 00:43:43 GMT
- Organization: Penn State University
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- Please, I need help---by way of even merely a suggestion as to what
- "canned" FORTRAN or Mathematica software packages to use for numerical
- integration---in solving the following system of nonlinear partial
- differential equations. (Laplace transforms work nicely on systems like
- this when they are linear. But this system is certainly not linear!)
-
- (The following details are provided to show what *kind* of system of
- differential equations are under consideration. For example, as far
- as BOUNDARY CONDITIONS are concerned at *one* of the two boundary
- points, the actual *values* of the functions or of their first partial
- derivatives with respect to x are *not* given, just relations among
- them at the point in question!)
-
- Given that
-
- U = U(x,t)
- V = V(x,t)
- W = W(x,t)
-
- and that "dot" and "prime" represent partial differentiation
- with respect t and x, respectively,
- .
- U = a U'' + b U W + c V^2
-
- .
- V = A V'' - b U W - c V^2
-
- .
- W = B W'' + b U W + c V^2 + C W
-
- where a, b, c, A, B, and C are constants,
- subject to the
-
- BOUNDARY CONDITIONS:
-
- (1) at x = 0, t > 0:
-
- U' = - V' = W',
- i.e. U' + V' = 0 and V' + W' = 0
- and
- U/V = V/W = f(t) [i.e. a given function of t]
-
- (2) at x = "infinity," t > 0:
-
- U = a given constant, <--------
- V = W = 0, |
- |
- and to the |
- |
- INITIAL CONDITIONS: |
- |
- (3) at t = 0, x > 0: |
- |
- U = the same given constant ---
- V = W = 0
-
- How, please, might this system of partial differential equations be
- solved, presumably or hopefully using Laplace transforms, "canned"
- FORTRAN subroutines (e.g. IMSL), Mathematica, MACSYMA, or whatever?
-
- Surely I don't expect anyone to actually solve them, but *suggestions*
- would be very much appreciated!
-
- Thanks!!
-
- Carey Briggs
-