A Compendium of Partial Differential Equation Models

William E. Schiesser is the Emeritus R. L. McCann Professor of Chemical Engineering and a Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and the co-author of the Cambridge book Computational Transport Phenomena. Graham W. Griffiths is a visiting professor in the School of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences of City University, London, having previously been a senior visiting Fellow. He is also a founder of Special Analysis and Simulation Technology Ltd and has worked extensively in, and researched into, the field of dynamic simulation of chemical processes.

• 1. An introduction to the Method of Lines (MOL); 2. A one-dimensional, linear partial differential equation; 3. Green's function analysis; 4. Two nonlinear, variable coeffcient, inhomogeneous PDEs; 5. Euler, Navier-Stokes and Burgers equations; 6. The Cubic Schrödinger Equation (CSE); 7. The Korteweg-deVries (KdV) equation; 8. The linear wave equation; 9. Maxwell's equations; 10. Elliptic PDEs: Laplace's equation; 11. Three-dimensional PDE; 12. PDE with a mixed partial derivative; 13. Simultaneous, nonlinear, 2D PDEs in cylindrical coordinates; 14. Diffusion equation in spherical coordinates; Appendix 1: partial differential equations from conservation principles: the anisotropic diffusion equation; Appendix 2: order conditions for finite difference approximations; Appendix 3: analytical solution of nonlinear, traveling wave partial differential equations; Appendix 4: implementation of time varying boundary conditions; Appendix 5: the DSS library; Appendix 6: animating simulation results.

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