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B013437 - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS (INTRODUCTION)
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Academic Year 2009-10
Coorte 2009 - Second Cycle Degree in SCIENZE FISICHE E ASTROFISICHE
Course year
First year -
Belonging Department
Physics and Astronomy
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
MAT/07 - MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
Credits
3
Teaching Hours
25
Teaching Term
⇒
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No
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Final Grade
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Course Content
The use of PDE’s in Physics. First order equations. Classification of second order equations. Hyperbolic equations. Elliptic equations. Parabolic equations.
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Prerequisites
Courses required: Calculus
Courses recommended: a course on ODE’s
Courses recommended: a course on ODE’s
Teaching Methods
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...):
75
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities:
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 25
75
Hours reserved to private study and other individual formative activities:
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 25
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Any time, on request
Any time, on request
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Oral examination
Oral examination
Course program
Course Contents (detailed program):
Examples of applications of PDE’s in Physics (Burgers’ equation, KdV equation and solitons, etc.)
First order equations. Shocks propagation. Classification of second order equations. Characteristic lines. Examples of ill posed problems.
Hyperbolic equations, the initial-boundary value problem, d’Alembert’s solution of the waves equation, Fourier’s method and Helmholtz’ equation, Riemann’s method, Goursat’s problem, method of descent.
Elliptic equations (Laplace and Poisson equations, harmonic functions), maximum principles, Green’s and Neumann’s functions, solution of the Dirichlet problem in the sphere and in a semi-infinite domain, representation formulas, relationship between harmonic and holomorphic functions, conformal mappings.
Parabolic equations, the heat equation, maximum principles, self-similar solutions, the fundamental solution, Green’s and Neumann’s functions, thermal potentials, the jump relation, representation formulas of solutions of initial-boundary value problems.
Examples of applications of PDE’s in Physics (Burgers’ equation, KdV equation and solitons, etc.)
First order equations. Shocks propagation. Classification of second order equations. Characteristic lines. Examples of ill posed problems.
Hyperbolic equations, the initial-boundary value problem, d’Alembert’s solution of the waves equation, Fourier’s method and Helmholtz’ equation, Riemann’s method, Goursat’s problem, method of descent.
Elliptic equations (Laplace and Poisson equations, harmonic functions), maximum principles, Green’s and Neumann’s functions, solution of the Dirichlet problem in the sphere and in a semi-infinite domain, representation formulas, relationship between harmonic and holomorphic functions, conformal mappings.
Parabolic equations, the heat equation, maximum principles, self-similar solutions, the fundamental solution, Green’s and Neumann’s functions, thermal potentials, the jump relation, representation formulas of solutions of initial-boundary value problems.