Solution Techniques for Elementary Partial Differential Equations - Paperback

by Christian Constanda (Author)

This book remains a top choice for a standard, undergraduate-level course on partial differential equations (PDEs). It provides a streamlined, direct approach to developing students' competence in solving PDEs, and offers concise, easily understood explanations and worked examples that enable students to see the techniques in action.

Author Biography

Christian Constanda, MS, PhD, DSc, is the Charles W. Oliphant Endowed Chair in Mathematical Sciences and director of the Center for Boundary Integral Methods at the University of Tulsa. He is also an emeritus professor at the University of Strathclyde and chairman of the International Consortium on Integral Methods in Science and Engineering. He is the author/editor of more than 30 books and more than 150 journal papers. His research interests include boundary value problems for elastic plates with transverse shear deformation, direct and indirect integral equation methods for elliptic problems and time-dependent problems, and variational methods in elasticity.