Green's Functions with Applications

ISBN-13: 9781138894464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018

Dean G. Duffy

Opis

This book provides a systematic approach to the various methods available for deriving a Green’s function. It begins by reviewing the historical development of the Green’s function, the Fourier and Laplace transforms, the classical special functions of Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials, and the Dirac delta function. It then presents Green’s functions for each class of differential equation (ordinary differential, wave, heat, and Helmholtz equations) according to the number of spatial dimensions and the geometry of the domain, including worked examples, problem sets, and illustrations.

Spis treści

Historical Development. Background Material. Green’s Functions for Ordinary Differential Equations. Green’s Functions for the Wave Equation. Green’s Functions for the Heat Equation. Green’s Functions for the Helmholtz Equation. Numerical Methods.

O autorze

Dean G. Duffy received his bachelor of science in geophysics from Case Institute of Technology, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and his doctorate of science in meteorology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. He served in the US Air Force for four years as a numerical weather prediction officer. After his military service, he began a twenty-five year association with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA. Widely published, Dr. Duffy has taught courses at the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, and the US Military Academy, West Point, New York.