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Maxwell's equations
set of partial differential equations that describe how electric and magnetic fields are generated and altered by each other and by charges and currents
Schrödinger equation
partial differential equation describing how the quantum state of a non-relativistic physical system changes with time
partial differential equation
differential equation that contains unknown multivariable functions and their partial derivatives
Dirac equation
relativistic quantum mechanical wave equation
Navier–Stokes equations
system of nonlinear partial differential equations describing the motion of viscous fluids
finite element method
numerical method for solving physical or engineering problems
continuity equation
equation constraining a quantity to flow only via adjacent locations; can express a locality principle
Noether's theorem
physical law that differentiable symmetries correspond to conservation laws
soliton
thumb|250px|Solitary wave (water waves)|Solitary wave in a laboratory [[wave channel]]
Cauchy–Riemann equations
system of linear partial differential equations characterizing holomorphic (complex differentiable) functions
Euler–Lagrange equation
second-order partial differential equation whose solutions are the functions for which a given functional is stationary
Poisson's equation
partial differential equation of elliptic type with broad utility in mechanical engineering and theoretical physics
Klein–Gordon equation
relativistic wave equation in quantum mechanics
spherical harmonic
special function over the surface of a sphere
Boltzmann equation
equation of statistical mechanics
Hamilton–Jacobi equation
equation in classical mechanics
separation of variables
method
potential theory
branch of mathematic studying harmonic functions
Cauchy problem
mathematical problem
Young–Laplace equation
describing pressure difference over an interface in fluid mechanics
diffusion equation
equation that describes density changes of a material that is diffusing in a medium
well-posed problem
functional relationship F between some input x and output y such that y=g(x) and g is Lipschitz in a neighbourhood of every x
Dirichlet problem
problem of finding a function which solves a specified partial differential equation with prescribed boundary values
Cauchy momentum equation
equation
Dirichlet's principle
concept in potential theory
Sturm–Liouville theory
theory of 2nd‐order linear ODEs that are eigenvalue equations of the operator 𝑤(𝑥)⁻¹((d∕d𝑥)𝑝(𝑥)d∕d𝑥+𝑞(𝑥))
integrable system
property of certain dynamical systems
Kuramoto model
exactly solvable model of coupled oscillators
method of characteristics
technique for solving hyperbolic partial differential equations
large eddy simulation
mathematical model for turbulence
elliptic differential equation
class of second-order linear partial differential equations
Chaplygin's equation
Robin boundary condition
class of problems in PDEs
Euler–Tricomi equation
domain
connected open subset of a finite-dimensional vector space
Landau–Lifshitz–Gilbert equation
describing the precessional motion of magnetization in a solid
pseudo-differential operator
operator on functions, defined by the composition of Fourier transformation, multiplication with a certain smooth function of both position and momentum, and inverse Fourier transformation
fundamental solution
solutions of a certain class of inhomogeneous partial differential equations
Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem
local existence and uniqueness theorem for analytic partial differential equations associated with Cauchy initial value problems
particle in a spherically symmetric potential
quantum mechanical model of a quantum nonrelativistic particle subject to a classical spherically symmetric potential well
primitive equations
set of nonlinear differential equations used to approximate global atmospheric flow
maximum principle
theorem that a harmonic function’s maximum can only be at the boundary of its domain
Lions–Lax–Milgram theorem
a result in functional analysis with applications in the study of partial differential equations
Newtonian potential
green's function for Laplacian
Riesz potential
Riesz potential defines an inverse for a power of the Laplace operator on Euclidean space.
shallow water equations
set of partial differential equations that describe the flow below a pressure surface in a fluid
Fisher's equation
PDE named after statistician and biologist Ronald Fisher
Wiener–Hopf method
mathematical method for integrodifferential equations
hypoelliptic operator
Partial differential operator
Mixed boundary condition
mathematical problem
Rarita–Schwinger equation
relativistic wave equation describing the propagation of a free spin 1½ particle
overdetermined system
set of equations with more equations than unknowns
computational electromagnetics
branch of physics
d'Alembert's formula
mathematical solution
numerical method for partial differential equations
class of methods for solving partial differential equations
Dynamic simulation
computer modeling of time-varying behavior of a dynamical system
Dirichlet's energy
half of the integral of the squared gradient of a function on its domain
multigrid method
method of solving system of linear algebrayes equations based on the use of a sequence of decreasing grids and operator
Noether's second theorem
Physics theorem for symmetries of action
Derivation of the Navier–Stokes equations
Equations of fluid dynamics