Academic Catalog

MATH584 PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS II

Course Code: 2360584
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Mathematics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. OKAY ÇELEBÝ
Offered Semester: Fall Semesters.

Course Content

Sobolev spaces: Weak Derivatives. Approximation by Smooth functions. Extentions. Traces. Sobolev Inequalities. The Space H^-1. Second-order Elliptic Equations: Weak Solutions. Lax-Milgram Teorem. Energy estimates. Fredholm Alternative. Regularity. Maximum Principles. Eigenvalues and Eigenfunctions. Linear Evolution Equations: Second-order Parabolic equations. (Weak solutions. Regularity. Maximum principle). Second-order Hyperbolic Equations (Weak Solutions. Regularity. Propagation of disturbances). Hyperbolic Systems of First-order Equations. Semigroup theory.