Applied Partial Differential Equations
Superb introduction devotes almost half its pages to numerical methods for solving partial differential equations, while the heart of the book focuses on boundary-value and initial-boundary-value... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0486419762
ISBN13:9780486419763
Release Date:February 2002
Publisher:Dover Publications
Length:640 Pages
Weight:1.90 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
4 ratings
Great Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This book is very well written and is worth every penny I paid for it. The authors are very clear,concise and understand the reader. The only drawback is that their Schaum's Outline has the Finite Element Method, but this book, as detailed as it is, has for some reason omitted it. With that said, I still think the book is very well priced.
Mad props
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Everybody out there thinking of writing an Applied PDE textbook should just forget it, you're wasting your time... we already have a perfectly good one: it's here, and it's under $20. Comprehensive, understandable and way ahead of its time in appreciating the importance of numerical methods. With copious examples and stacks of problems, it's good as both a learning and a reference text. The only bad things I can find are a few typos in the finite difference chapters. Outstanding job.
right mix of mathematics, physics, and numerics
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Not very special book, but a beautiful price. Down the line the goal is FEM, but it review different types of equations with some mathematical rigor and physical insight.
It's about time this book is back in print.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
Kudos to Dover for bringing this book back in print. We usedthis book in a partial differential equations course at theUniversity of Pittsburgh a year ago. Unfortunately, the bookwas out-of print then, and we had to use photocopies of theoriginal Harper & Row edition. (and the school bookstore chargedus about twice the $$ as the Dover edition costs.) The textbegins with the heat equation, and then progresses to morecomplicated PDEs. The nice thing is that discrete methods areintroduced right from the start. I remember having a lot of funplugging discrete solutions of PDEs into Microsoft Excel andseeing what the solutions looked like. The chapter on FourierSeries is good, generalized Fourier series are covered, andyou will learn concepts such as pointwise and uniform convergen-ce. Following that, there is a chapter on boundary-valueproblems which covers Dirichlet, Neumann and Sturm-Liouvilleproblems. For both Cartesian and curvilinear coordinates. Ican't tell you what is in the later chapters, but if the restof the book is like the first three chapters, then it is a greatbook, well worth the money.
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