System of Initial Value PDE's
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- Subject: [mg6785] System of Initial Value PDE's
- From: "Rick A. Sprague" <sprague at egr.msu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 02:38:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Michigan State University College of Chemical Engineering
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, Can Mathematica solve PDE's other than the Wave equation? I thought that it can solve initial value PDEs. Also, I think that the documentation states that Mathematica can solve systems of PDE's. Can someone tell me why mathematica can't solve the following equations? I may have posed the problem incorrectly to mathematica. I basically had to write a C++ program to do the job. dX/dz = Q-X dQ/dt = X-Q BC: X=1 @z=0 for all t Q=0 @t=0 for all z X=X[z,t] Q=Q[z,t] Both derivatives are partial dervatives Can mathematica solve this system of PDE's? Thanks, Rick Sprague sprague at egr.msu.edu