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A Compact Course on Linear PDEs

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  • © 2020

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Authors:
  1. Alberto Valli

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

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  • It is a compact presentation of second order linear PDEs
  • Variational formulations are fully described
  • Include saddle-point formulation of elliptic PDEs

Part of the book series: UNITEXT (UNITEXT, volume 126)

Part of the book sub series: La Matematica per il 3+2 (UNITEXTMAT)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-8

  3. Second Order Linear Elliptic Equations

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 9-29

  4. A Bit of Functional Analysis

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 31-38

  5. Weak Derivatives and Sobolev Spaces

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 39-51

  6. Weak Formulation of Elliptic PDEs

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 53-81

  7. Technical Results

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 83-107

  8. Additional Results

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 109-149

  9. Saddle Points Problems

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 151-175

  10. Parabolic PDEs

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 177-193

  11. Hyperbolic PDEs

    • Alberto Valli
    Pages 195-211

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 213-235
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About this book

This textbook is devoted to second order linear partial differential equations. The focus is on variational formulations in Hilbert spaces. It contains elliptic equations, including some basic results on Fredholm alternative and spectral theory, some useful notes on functional analysis, a brief presentation of Sobolev spaces and their properties, saddle point problems, parabolic equations and hyperbolic equations. Many exercises are added, and the complete solution of all of them is included. The work is mainly addressed to students in Mathematics, but also students in Engineering with a good mathematical background should be able to follow the theory presented here.

Reviews

“The book is designed to be compact, and it is – very. The author treats many topics very quickly, and the connecting links are also much abbreviated. A lot is demanded of the reader, even one starting with a background of classical PDEs at the undergraduate level.” (Bill Satzer, MAA Reviews, December 27, 2021)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Trento, Italy

    Alberto Valli

About the author

Alberto Valli is professor of Mathematical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Trento. His research activity has concerned the analysis of partial differential equations in fluid dynamics and electromagnetism and of their numerical approximation by the finite element method. He also studied domain decomposition methods and their use in the discretization of partial differential equations. On these topics he wrote three books.

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