Acknowledgments |
Preface |
Potential, Heat, and Wave Equation / 1: |
Overview / 1.1: |
Classification of second order equations / 1.2: |
Laplace's and Poisson's equation / 1.3: |
The heat equation / 1.4: |
The wave equation / 1.5: |
Basic Approximation Theory / 2: |
Norms and inner products / 2.1: |
Projection and best approximation / 2.2: |
Important function spaces / 2.3: |
Sturm-Liouville Problems / 3: |
Sturm-Liouville problems for o" = [mu]o / 3.1: |
Sturm-Liouville problems for [pound]o = [mu]o / 3.2: |
A Sturm-Liouville problem with an interface / 3.3: |
Fourier Series / 4: |
Introduction / 4.1: |
Convergence / 4.2: |
Convergence of Fourier series / 4.3: |
Cosine and sine series / 4.4: |
Operations on Fourier series / 4.5: |
Partial sums of the Fourier series and the Gibbs phenomenon / 4.6: |
Eigenfunction Expansions for Equations in Two Independent Variables / 5: |
One-Dimensional Diffusion Equation / 6: |
Applications of the eigenfunction expansion method / 6.1: |
How many terms of the series solution are enough? / Example 6.1: |
Determination of an unknown diffusivity from measured data / Example 6.2: |
Thermal waves / Example 6.3: |
Matching a temperature history / Example 6.4: |
Phase shift for a thermal wave / Example 6.5: |
Dynamic determination of a convective heat transfer coefficient from measured data / Example 6.6: |
Radial heat flow in a sphere / Example 6.7: |
A boundary layer problem / Example 6.8: |
The Black-Scholes equation / Example 6.9: |
Radial heat flow in a disk / Example 6.10: |
Heat flow in a composite slab / Example 6.11: |
Reaction-diffusion with blowup / Example 6.12: |
Convergence of u[subscript N](x, t) to the analytic solution / 6.2: |
Influence of the boundary conditions and Duhamel's solution / 6.3: |
One-Dimensional Wave Equation / 7: |
A vibrating string with initial displacement / 7.1: |
A vibrating string with initial velocity / Example 7.2: |
A forced wave and resonance / Example 7.3: |
Wave propagation in a resistive medium / Example 7.4: |
Oscillations of a hanging chain / Example 7.5: |
Symmetric pressure wave in a sphere / Example 7.6: |
Controlling the shape of a wave / Example 7.7: |
The natural frequencies of a uniform beam / Example 7.8: |
A system of wave equations / Example 7.9: |
Eigenfunction expansions and Duhamel's principle / 7.2: |
Potential Problems in the Plane / 8: |
The Dirichlet problem for the Laplacian on a rectangle / 8.1: |
Preconditioning for general boundary data / Example 8.2: |
Poisson's equation with Neumann boundary data / Example 8.3: |
A discontinuous potential / Example 8.4: |
Lubrication of a plane slider bearing / Example 8.5: |
Lubrication of a step bearing / Example 8.6: |
The Dirichlet problem on an L-shaped domain / Example 8.7: |
Poisson's equation in polar coordinates / Example 8.8: |
Steady-state heat flow around an insulated pipe I / Example 8.9: |
Steady-state heat flow around an insulated pipe II / Example 8.10: |
Poisson's equation on a triangle / Example 8.11: |
Eigenvalue problem for the two-dimensional Laplacian / 8.2: |
The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on a rectangle / Example 8.12: |
The Green's function for the Laplacian on a square / Example 8.13: |
The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on a disk / Example 8.14: |
The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian on the surface of a sphere / Example 8.15: |
Convergence of u[subscript N](x, y) to the analytic solution / 8.3: |
Multidimensional Problems / 9: |
A diffusive pulse test / 9.1: |
Standing waves on a circular membrane / Example 9.2: |
The potential inside a charged sphere / Example 9.3: |
Pressure in a porous slider bearing / Example 9.4: |
The eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in R[subscript 3] / 9.2: |
An eigenvalue problem for quadrilaterals / Example 9.5: |
An eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in a cylinder / Example 9.6: |
Periodic heat flow in a cylinder / Example 9.7: |
An eigenvalue problem for the Laplacian in a sphere / Example 9.8: |
The eigenvalue problem for Schrodinger's equation with a spherically symmetric potential well / Example 9.9: |
Bibliography |
Index |
Acknowledgments |
Preface |
Potential, Heat, and Wave Equation / 1: |