SUBJECT

Title

Partial differential equations

Type of instruction

lecture + practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

4

Recommended in

Semester 2

Typically offered in

Spring semester

Course description

First order linear and quasilinear PDEs.

Second order linear PDEs, classiicaion.

Parabolic and hyperbolic iniial value problems.

Hilbert spaces, Fourier series, linear operators.

Ellipic boundary value problems.

Eigenvalue problems, separaion of variables. Fourier series expansion of the soluion.

Green’s funcion, spherical funcions.

Parabolic and hyperbolic iniial- boundary value problems.

Fourier transform, wavelets.

Readings
  • W. A. Strauss, Parial Diferenial Equaions: An Introducion , Wiley, 2007
  • Kartunen et al.: Fundamental Astronomy. 5Th ed., Springer, 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-34143-7
  • Bradley et al.: Introducion to Modern Astrophysics. 2Nd ed., Benjamin Cummings Publ., 2006, ISBN 978-0805304022