How to evaluate the Laplacian of a function as a function?
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- Subject: [mg114348] How to evaluate the Laplacian of a function as a function?
- From: Iliyan Georgiev <me at iliyan.com>
- Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 02:15:23 -0500 (EST)
Hi, I have a stupid problem and cannot find a solution anywhere. I have the function func[x_,y_] := 3/Pi*(1 - x^2 + y^2))^2 which I need the Laplacian of: funcLapl := Laplacian[func[Xx,Yy]] The Laplacian is computed correctly, but how can I treat the result as a function? I want to be able to evaluate/plot the Laplacian. I tried many things and I'm frustrated. My current solution is to manually copy the derived Laplacian and create a function from that. It's obviously not a good solution. Any suggestions?