INTRODUCTION TO NUMERICAL METHODS IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS - Softcover

HOLMES MARK H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8132204816 ISBN 13: 9788132204817

Publisher: Springer, 2012

Synopsis

The title gives a reasonable ?rst-order approximation to what this book is about. To explain why, let’s start with the expression “di?erential equations.” These are essential in science and engineering, because the laws of nature t- ically result in equations relating spatial and temporal changes in one or more variables.Todevelopanunderstandingofwhatisinvolvedin?ndingsolutions, the book begins with problems involving derivatives for only one independent variable, and these give rise to ordinary di?erential equations. Speci?cally, the ?rst chapter considers initial value problems (time derivatives), and the second concentrates on boundary value problems (space derivatives). In the succeeding four chapters problems involving both time and space derivatives, partial di?erential equations, are investigated. This brings us to the next expression in the title: “numerical methods.” This is a book about how to transform di?erential equations into problems that can be solved using a

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8132204816
• ISBN 13: 9788132204817
• Binding: Paperback