There are many ordinary/partial differential equations/systems describing
various phenomena in physics, mechanics, chemistry, biology, sociology, etc.
We study how to write out the equations and the related boundary conditions.
What does ``well-posedeness\" mean? Various kinds of PDE and the main
properties of their solutions are considered. How does one determine
the solutions and what does "determine" mean? What are the reasons behind
blow-up phenomena? Some methods of analytical and numerical solutions will
be considered as well.
Prerequisites:
1 semester "Advanced Calculus", 1 semester "Linear Algebra". Optional: 2 semester "Advanced Calculus", 2 semester "Linear Algebra", 1 semester "Functions of Complex Variables", elements of the functional analysis and the ordinary differential equations theory.
Curriculum:
- Ordinary differential equations as models of various physical, chemical, biological etc. phenomena. First integrals.
- Qualitative and quantative analysis. Well-posed and ill-posed problems. Existence and uniqueness for the Cauchy problem. Boundary problem. Double-sweep method. Sturm-Liouville problem.
- Dimensional analysis of physical problems.
- Laplace transform for linear differential equations
- Partial differential equations as models of various phenomena. First integrals. Self-similar solutions.
- Normal form of partial differential equations. Cauchy-Kovalevskaya theorem.
- Linear differential equations with constant coefficients and Fourier transform. Examples of explicit solutions.
- Fourier transform as a unitary operator.
- Generalized functions (distributions). Definitions and elementary theorems. Convolution. Foundamental solutions.
- Evolutionary equations, well-posedness according to I. G. Petrovski. Finite-difference approximations of equations and Pade approximations. Hyperbolic and parabolic systems. Examples of ill-posed problems. Small parameter and regularizations. Quasi-linear equations and conservation laws. Characteristics and bicharacteristics. Hamilton-Jacobi equations. Blow-up. Solitons.
- Boundary problem for elliptic equations.
- Mixed problem and Shapiro-Lopatinsky theory of well-posed boundary conditions.
- Separation of variables for PDE in symmetrical domains.
- Additional directions of study.
Textbooks
- M.A.Shubin, Partial differential equations.
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