#1, RE: Separation of Variables Method
Posted by alexb on Apr-16-04 at 10:29 PM
In response to message #0
>In many physical and engineering problems invloving >differential equations in a function F(x,y,z), we search the >solutions by asuming that F(x,y,z) is of the form > (*) F(x,y,z) = X(x)Y(y)Z(z). > >But what I haven't read yet is the proof that all posible >solutions are of this form. Does anyone know the proof? >There is none. Call a solution in the "separable" form (*) primitive. They often exist with some or all X, Y, Z from specific function families: trigonometric, exponential, and others. More general solutions are looked up as a combination - finite or infinite - of primitive solutions.
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