Re: PDE's?
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- Subject: [mg23775] Re: PDE's?
- From: Rob Knapp <rknapp at wolfram.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:59:21 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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David Punsalan wrote: > > Hi! > > I need to solve some partial differential equations (1 space dim, 1 time > dimentsion, e.g. the heat equation, Fick's second law) with initial and > boundary conditions. In some cases, I'll need to solve non-linear, second > order partial differential equations. I was wondering if Mathematica (standard, w/o any extra toolkits or > packages) can do it. > DSolve can compute symbolic solutions to a limited set of PDE's NSDolve can compute approximate numerical solutions to 1 + 1 dimensional nonlinear PDE's or systems of PDE's which can be specified as Cauchy problems (initial values for "time"). This class certainly includes the heat equation. Rob Knapp Wolfram Research, Inc.