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  2. Method of characteristics - Wikipedia

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    Characteristics may fail to cover part of the domain of the PDE. This is called a rarefaction, and indicates the solution typically exists only in a weak, i.e. integral equation, sense. The direction of the characteristic lines indicates the flow of values through the solution, as the example above demonstrates.

  3. Stencil (numerical analysis) - Wikipedia

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    Stencils are the basis for many algorithms to numerically solve partial differential equations (PDE). Two examples of stencils are the five-point stencil and the Crank–Nicolson method stencil. Stencils are classified into two categories: compact and non-compact , the difference being the layers from the point of interest that are also used ...

  4. Parabolic partial differential equation - Wikipedia

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    A parabolic partial differential equation is a type of partial differential equation (PDE). Parabolic PDEs are used to describe a wide variety of time-dependent phenomena in, i.a., engineering science, quantum mechanics and financial mathematics. Examples include the heat equation, time-dependent Schrödinger equation and the Black–Scholes ...

  5. Partial differential equation - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives.. The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to how x is thought of as an unknown number solving, e.g., an algebraic equation like x 2 − 3x + 2 = 0.

  6. Method of lines - Wikipedia

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    Method of lines - the example, which shows the origin of the name of method. The method of lines (MOL, NMOL, NUMOL [1] [2] [3]) is a technique for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in which all but one dimension is discretized.

  7. Category:Partial differential equations - Wikipedia

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    PDE-constrained optimization; Perfectly matched layer; Perron method; Petrov–Galerkin method; Phase space method; Poincaré–Lelong equation; Poisson's equation; Population balance equation; Porous medium equation; Potential theory; Primitive equations; Proper orthogonal decomposition; Pseudo-differential operator; Pseudoanalytic function

  8. Elliptic partial differential equation - Wikipedia

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    The simplest example of a second-order linear elliptic PDE is the Laplace equation, in which a i,j is zero if i ≠ j and is one otherwise, and where b i = c = f = 0. The Poisson equation is a slightly more general second-order linear elliptic PDE, in which f is not required to vanish.

  9. Finite element method - Wikipedia

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    The process eliminates all the spatial derivatives from the PDE, thus approximating the PDE locally using the following: a set of algebraic equations for steady-state problems; and; a set of ordinary differential equations for transient problems. These equation sets are element equations. They are linear if the