Variational Principles and Free-Boundary Problems (Dover Books on Mathematics) - Softcover

Friedman, Prof. Avner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 048647853X ISBN 13: 9780486478531

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2010

Synopsis

This advanced graduate-level text examines variational methods in partial differential equations and illustrates their applications to a number of free-boundary problems. Detailed statements of the standard theory of elliptic and parabolic operators make this treatment readable for engineers, students, and nonspecialists alike.
The text's first two chapters can be used for a single-semester graduate course in variational inequalities or partial differential equations. The succeeding chapters — covering jets and cavities, variational problems with potentials, and free-boundary problems not in variational form — are more specialized and self-contained. Readers who have mastered chapters 1 and 2 will be able to conduct research on the problems explored in subsequent chapters. Bibliographic remarks conclude each chapter, along with several problems and exercises.

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About the Author

Avner Friedman is Director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at Ohio State University. Dover has reprinted several of his books on partial and stochastic differential equations and on the role of mathematics in industrial problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 048647853X
• ISBN 13: 9780486478531
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 720