Re: Algebra of differential operators
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- Subject: [mg39391] Re: Algebra of differential operators
- From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 04:58:31 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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In article <b1t521$8ql$1 at smc.vnet.net>, Paolo Zavarise <paolozavarise at libero.it> wrote: > What's the best way (simple, general and without dummy functions) to define > in mathematica 4.2 a differential operator? > > For example, how can I evaluate laplacian operator in spherical coordinates > ? (without using ad-hoc packages... What do you mean by "ad-hoc packages..."? > i want to enter expression of d/dx, d/dy, d/dz and mathematica must > compute (d/dx)^2+(d/dy)^2+(d/dz)^2) At http://physics.uwa.edu.au/pub/Mathematica/MathGroup/ChangingVariables.nb you'll find one approach. For a more general and powerful approach there is the Differential Forms package by Frank Zizza at http://www.willamette.edu/~zizza/ and the Symbolic Vector Analysis package by Hong Qin at http://w3.pppl.gov/~hongqin/computerAlgebra.htm > How can i evaluate powers,product etc... of operators ? Dan Lichtblau has posted a number of messages to MathGroup on this topic. See also The Mathematica Journal 8(1). Cheers, Paul ~ ~ ~