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PDE Notation options (one works the other does not)

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• Subject: [mg51336] PDE Notation options (one works the other does not)
• From: "Prince-Wright, Robert G SEPCO" <robert.prince-wright at shell.com>
• Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 06:37:45 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello Group.

Can someone explain why 'format 1' below works but 'format 2' does not. 
Also how do you know when to use the different Notations for partial 
derivatives.

thanks
Bob

===== format 1



\!\(\*
  RowBox[{"solution", "=",
    RowBox[{"u", "/.",
      RowBox[{"First", "[", "\[IndentingNewLine]",
        RowBox[{"NDSolve", "[", "\[IndentingNewLine]",
          RowBox[{
            RowBox[{"{", "\[IndentingNewLine]",
             
        RowBox[{\(?\_t u[x, t] == \(-0.1\)\ \
          u[x, t] - 2\ ?\_x u[x, t] + \ 0.3\ \ ?\_{x, 2}u[x, t]\), ",",
          "\[IndentingNewLine]", \(u[x, 0] == 0\), ",",
            "\[IndentingNewLine]", \(u[0,
              t] == 5\ \((1 - Exp[\(-t\)])\)\), ",", =
"\[IndentingNewLine]",
                RowBox[{
                  RowBox[{
                    SuperscriptBox["u",
                      TagBox[\((1, 0)\),
                        Derivative],
                 
                              MultilineFunction->None], "[", \(20, t\), 
\
"]"}], "==", "0"}]}], "\[IndentingNewLine]", "}"}], ",",
                "\[IndentingNewLine]", "u", ",", \({x, 0, 20}\), ",", 
\({
                t, 0, 10}\)}], "]"}], "]"}]}]}]\)

===== format 2



\!\(solution = u /. 
First[\[IndentingNewLine]NDSolve[\[IndentingNewLine]{\
\[IndentingNewLine]?\_t u[x, t] == \(-0.1\)\ \ u[x, t] - 2\ ?\_x 
u[x,
          t] + \ 0.3\ \ ?\_{x, 2}u[x,
            t], \[IndentingNewLine]u[x, 0] ==
                   0, \[IndentingNewLine]u[0, t] == 5\ \((1 - 
Exp[\(-
                t\)])\), \[IndentingNewLine]?\_x\ u[20, t] ==
                 0\[IndentingNewLine]}, \[IndentingNewLine]u, {x, 0, 
20}, {t,
            0, 10}]]\)


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