3rd Edition

Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists

1325 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

Characteristic Features • Includes nearly 4,000 linear partial differential equations (PDEs) with solutions • Presents solutions to numerous problems relevant to heat and mass transfer, wave theory, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, elasticity, acoustics, electrodynamics, diffraction theory, quantum mechanics, chemical engineering sciences, electrical engineering, and other fields • Outlines... Read more

Part I: Exact Solutions

1. Second-Order Parabolic Equations with One Space Variable

2. Second-Order Parabolic Equations with Two Space Variables

3. Second-Order Parabolic Equations with Three or More Space Variables

4. Second-Order Hyperbolic Equations with One Space Variable

5. Second-Order Hyperbolic Equations with Two Space Variable

6. Second-Order Hyperbolic Equations with Three or More Space Variables

7. Second-Order Elliptic Equations with Two Space Variables

8. Second-Order Elliptic Equations with Three or More Space Variables                                  

9. Higher-Order Partial Differential Equations

10. Systems of Linear Partial Differential Equations                                                              

Part II: Analytical Methods                                                                                               

11. Methods for First-Order Linear PDEs                                                                             

12. Second-Order Linear PDEs: Classification, Problems, Particular Solutions                        

13. Separation of Variables and Integral Transform Methods                                                 

14. Cauchy Problem: Fundamental Solutions                                                                        

15. Boundary Value Problems: Green’s Function                                                                  

16. Duhamel’s Principles: Some Transformations                                                                  

17. Systems of Linear Coupled PDEs: Decomposition Methods

18. Some Asymptotic Results and Formulas                                                                          

19. Linear Partial Differential Equations with Delay

20. Linear Fractional Partial Differential Equations

21. Elements of Theory of Generalized Functions

Part III: Tables and Supplements

22. Indefinite and Definite Integrals

23. Integral Transforms

24. Curvilinear Coordinates, Vectors, Operators, and Differential Relations

25. Some Special Functions and Their Properties

Biography

Andrei D. Polyanin, D.Sc., is an internationally renowned scientist of broad interests and is active in various areas of mathematics, mechanics, and chemical engineering sciences. He is one of the most prominent authors in the field of reference literature on mathematics. Professor Polyanin graduated with honors from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics at Lomonosov Moscow State University in 1974. He received his Ph.D. in 1981 and D.Sc. in 1986 at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1975, Professor Polyanin has been working at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also professor of applied mathematics at Bauman Moscow State Technical University and at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. He is a member of the Russian National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and the Mathematics and Mechanics Expert Council of the Higher Certification Committee of the Russian Federation. Professor Polyanin has authored more than 30 books in English, Russian, German, and Bulgarian as well as more than 300 research papers, three patents, and a number of fundamental handbooks. Professor Polyanin is editor-in-chief of the website EqWorld—The World of Mathematical Equations, editor of the book series Differential and Integral Equations and Their Applications, and a member of the editorial board of the journals Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering, Mathematical Modeling and Computational Methods, and Bulletin of the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI. In 1991, Professor Polyanin was awarded the Chaplygin Prize of the Russian Academy of Sciences for his research in mechanics. In 2001, he received an award from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

Vladimir E. Nazaikinskii, D.Sc., is an actively working mathematician specializing in partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and noncommutative analysis. He was born in 1955 in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering in 1977, defended his Ph.D. in 1980 and D.Sc. in 2014, and worked at the Institute for Automated Control Systems, Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering, Potsdam University, and Moscow State University. Currently he is a senior researcher at the Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of seven monographs and more than 150 papers on various aspects of noncommutative analysis, asymptotic problems, and elliptic theory.