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Traveling Wave Analysis of Partial Differential Equations
Numerical and Analytical Methods with Matlab and Maple
Surveys new developments in analytical and numerical methods, and relates the two through a series of partial differential equations examples
Graham Griffiths (Author), William E. Schiesser (Author)
9780123846525, Elsevier Science
Hardback, published 3 February 2011
461 pages
23.4 x 19 x 2.9 cm, 0.96 kg
"This book surveys some of the new developments in analytical and numerical computer solution methods for partial differential equations with applications to physical, chemical, and biological problems. The 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." --Zentralblatt MATH 1228-1
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. The Matlab and Maple software will be available for download from this website shortly. www.pdecomp.net
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
Subject Areas: Differential calculus & equations [PBKJ]
