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| | | | A. D. Polyanin and V. E. Nazaikinskii Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and ScientistsSecond Edition, Updated, Revised and Extended Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton-London-New York Year of Publication: January 27, 2016 Number of Pages: 1632 Summary Preface Features Contents References | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |

Features

Includes nearly 4,000 linear partial differential equations with solutions
Considers equations of parabolic, hyperbolic, elliptic, mixed, and other types
Addresses equations arising in various applications, including heat and mass transfer, hydrodynamics, gas dynamics, elasticity, acoustics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, chemical engineering sciences, electrical engineering, and other fields
Offers a broad choice of reliable solution methods and shows by specific examples how to use these methods
Discusses symbolic and numerical methods for solving PDEs with Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB�
Describes a number of new linear equations, exact solutions, transformations, and methods on par with the progress of science
Contains several times more specific science and engineering linear equations and exact solutions than any other book currently available
Provides a database of test problems for numerical and approximate methods for solving linear PDEs and equations of mathematical physics

New to the second edition

More than 700 pages with over 1,500 new first-, second-, third-, fourth-, and higher-order linear equations with solutions
Systems of coupled partial differential equations with solutions
Some analytical methods, including decomposition methods and their applications
Symbolic and numerical methods for solving linear PDEs with Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB�
Many new problems, illustrative examples, tables, and figures To accommodate different mathematical backgrounds, the authors avoid wherever possible the use of special terminology, outline some of the methods in a schematic, simplified manner, and arrange the material in increasing order of complexity.

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