PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
Course Name Code Regular Semester ECTS Credits Credits Lecture 3
Application -
Partial Differential Equations 0252072 4 5 3 Laboratory (Hour/Week) -
Course Language Turkish
Compulsory or Elective Compulsory
Equipment Board, Overhead Projector, Projector, Notebook, CD
Instructor Department of Mathematics
Course Contents Definition of partial differantial equation (PDE)/ Cauchy Problems/ Solution methods of some special type of PDEs/ Solution of first order linear and non-linear PDEs/ Transformation of second order linear PDEs in to canonic form. Initial and boundary value problems for second order linear PDEs. Wave equation/ Heat equation/ Laplace equation/ Fourier method/ Harmonic functions/ Green functions
Course Objectives We can use the PDEs to explain and to solve the problems that appear in mathematical modelling of a lot of physical , chemical and biological formations. Our aims are to determine some PDEs , directly or indirectly which we can face with, in various fields , to give fundamental solution method and to inform about its mathematical theory
Course Outcomes
(The knowledge and the skills that the student will gain at the end of the course)
  1. To improve mathematical observation and thought
  2. Giving informations about some engineering systems (wave , heat , equation etc. ) whose modellings are done by using PDEs ( to understand plenty many problems in nature)
Textbook Lecture Notes
Additional References
  1. Hellewing, G. “Partial differential Equations” Blaisdell, New York, 1964
  2. I.N. Sneddon, Elements of Partial Differential equations (McGraw – Hill)
  3. “Partial Differantial Equations” , W.E. Williams, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1980
Prerequisite Courses -
Prerequisite Subjects 0251012 Analysis 2 – 0252011 Analysis 3 – 0252081 Differantial Equations 1 subjects
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Computer Applications -
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Course Evaluation Criteria
Number Effective Proportion %
Midterm Exams 2 60
Quiz - -
Homework - -
Term Projects - -
Term Papers - -
Laboratory - -
Other - -
Final Exam 1 40
Division of Course Credit (%) Basic Sciences - %
Basic Engineering and Departmental Core Courses - %
Departmental Core Courses 100 %
Social Sciences - %

WEEKLY COURSE PLAN
Week Subject
1 Definition of partial differantial equation (PDE)
2 Cauchy Problems. Solution methods of some special type of PDEs
3 Solution of first order linear and non-linear PDEs
4 Solution of first order linear and non-linear PDEs
5 Transformation of second order linear PDEs in to canonic form
6 Transformation of second order linear PDEs in to canonic form
7 Initial and boundary value problems for second order linear PDEs
8 1st Midterm exam; Polar Coordinates
9 Initial and boundary value problems for second order linear PDEs
10 Wave equation. Heat equation
11 Laplace equation
12 Fourier method
13 2nd Midterm exam; Areas of Surfaces of Revolution
14 Harmonic functions
15 Green functions

Prepared by Department of Mathematics Date 01.01.2007