Day 25

Thursday, May 4, 2017

First-order PDES and the method of characteristics

Characteristic curves for 1st-order PDEs

Example 1

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Two views of a characteristic curve (gray) in the xy-plane and the solution of the PDE above it (blue):

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Example 2

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Example 3

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