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Mixed type PDE's and transonic flow.
Student-Run Research| Speaker: | John Hunter, Mathematics, UC Davis |
| Location: | 693 Kerr |
| Start time: | Wed, Feb 2 2000, 2:10PM |
Description
The type of a PDE determines the kinds of
auxillary conditions that lead to well-posed
problems. For example, intial value problems
for hyperbolic PDE's and boundary value
problems for elliptic PDE's. For mixed
type PDE's, whose type varies with position,
it is not at all obvious what are the
appropriate auxillary conditions that lead
to well-posed problems. I'll describe some
of the basic boundary value problems for
mixed type PDE's and their application to
transonic flow problems and shock reflection.