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Re: boundary condition for NDSolve

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  • Subject: [mg45093] Re: boundary condition for NDSolve
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 06:21:44 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
your irregular domain is a typical application for a finite
element program you should use this method because NDSolve[]
will not do that for you.

Regards
  Jens

Yama Masu wrote:
> 
> I would like to solve membrane oscillation between two square shaped fixed boundaries
> with NDSolve.
>  D[u[x, y, t], {t, 2}] == D[u[x, y, t], {x, 2}] + D[u[x, y, t], {y, 2}] + f[x, y, t],
> where f is an external force.
> 
> The boundary condition for the outside square is given by
>   u[x, -1, t] == 0, u[x, 1, t] == 0, u[-1, y, t] == 0, u[1, y, t] == 0.
> 
> How can I give the boundary condition for the square inside?
> 
> I tried
>   If[y>-0.5 && y<0.5, u[0.5, y, t]==0] etc. but this didn't work.
> 
> Masu


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