Re: Simple PDE with side conditions
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- Subject: [mg115476] Re: Simple PDE with side conditions
- From: schochet123 <schochet123 at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:24:52 -0500 (EST)
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"NDSolve" was a misprint for "DSolve". Sorry. What about with DSolve in version 8? Steve On Jan 11, 1:59 pm, Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebe... at wolfram.com> wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, schochet123 wrote: > > Unfortunately, Mathematica cannot solve this (yet?). > > > Note that the functional equation is not needed since the solution is > > determined by the PDE plus the initial condition. > > > However, at least in version 7, NDSolve does not seem to solve > > first-order PDEs in three independent variables. Even the "trivial" > > problem > > You can solve this with NDSolve in version 7: > > L = 4; > sol = NDSolve[{ > D[u[t, x, y], t] + D[u[t, x, y], x] == 0 > , u[t, -L, y] == u[t, L, y] > , u[t, x, -L] == u[t, x, L] > , u[0, x, y] == Exp[-(x^2 + y^2)] > }, u, {t, 0, 1}, {x, -L, L}, {y, -L, L}] > > Manipulate[ > Plot3D[u[t, x, y] /. First[sol], {x, -L, L}, {y, -L, L}, > PlotRange -> All], {t, 0, 1}] > > > > > DSolve[{D[u[t, x, y], t] + D[u[t, x, y], x] == 0, > > u[0, x, y] == 0}, u, {t, x, y}] > > > does not get solved, although if you remove all the appearances of ",y" it is solved. > > > Can someone with version 8 check if there have been any improvements in that version? >