2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Dec 26, 2024  
2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MATH 435 - Partial Differential Equations with Applications


Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0

A course containing the following topics: first order partial differential equations; the wave equation; the diffusion equation; the Laplace equation; d’Alembert’s solution; Duhamel’s principle; the classification of partial differential equations; elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic partial differential equations; Stability theory; energy conservation; Sturm-Liouville problems; Fourier series; integral transforms; Laplace transforms; Greens’s functions; and variational methods. Applications in medicine, engineering, meteorology, and industry will be discussed. Mathematical software such as ACSL, Maple, and Mathematica will be used.
Prerequisite: MATH 242  and MATH 331