Traveling Wave Analysis of Partial Differential Equations

Numerical and Analytical Methods with MATLAB and Maple
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-12-384652-5
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 461 Seiten, Format (B × H): 200 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 986 g

Although the Partial Differential Equations (PDE) models that are now studied are usually beyond traditional mathematical analysis, the numerical methods that are being developed and used require testing and validation. This is often done with PDEs that have known, exact, analytical solutions. The development of analytical solutions is also an active area of research, with many advances being reported recently, particularly traveling wave solutions for nonlinear evolutionary PDEs. Thus, the current development of analytical solutions directly supports the development of numerical methods by providing a spectrum of test problems that can be used to evaluate numerical methods.

This book surveys some of these new developments in analytical and numerical methods, and relates the two through a series of PDE examples. The PDEs that have been selected are largely "named'' since they carry the names of their original contributors. These names usually signify that the PDEs are widely recognized and used in many application areas. The authors' intention is to provide a set of numerical and analytical methods based on the concept of a traveling wave, with a central feature of conversion of the PDEs to ODEs.

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Zielgruppe

<p>Scientists, Engineers, Applied Mathematicians, and Economists who use PDE models</p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Graham

Schiesser, William E

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematische Analysis Differentialrechnungen und -gleichungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Traveling wave, residual function methods for analytical solutions to PDEs;2. Linear advection equation;3. Linear diusion equation;4. Linear convection diusion reaction equation;5. Diusion equation with nonlinear source terms;6. Burgers-Huxley equation;7. Burgers-Fisher equation;8. Fisher-Kolmogorov equation;9. Fitzhugh-Nagumo equation;10. Fisher-Kolmogorov-Petrovskii-Piskunov equation;11. Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation;12. Kawahara equation;13. Benjamin-Bona-Mahoney (RLW) equation;14. Extended Bernoulli equation;15. Hyperbolic Liouville equation;16. Sine-Gordon equation;17. Mth order Klein-Gordon equation;18. Boussinesq equation;19. Modied wave equation;20. Appendix 1 - Analytical solution methods for traveling wave problems;

Über Autor(innen)

Schiesser, William E
Dr. William E. Schiesser is Emeritus McCann Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. He holds a PhD from Princeton University and a ScD (hon) from the University of Mons, Belgium. His research is directed toward numerical methods and associated software for ordinary, differential-algebraic and partial differential equations (ODE/DAE/PDEs), and the development of mathematical models based on ODE/DAE/PDEs. He is the author or coauthor of more than 16 books, and his ODE/DAE/PDE computer routines have been accessed by some 5,000 colleges and universities, corporations, and government agencies.