A. D. Polyanin and V. E. Nazaikinskii Handbook of Linear Partial Differential Equations for Engineers and Scientists Second Edition, Updated, Revised and Extended Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, Boca Raton-London-New York Year of Publication: January 27, 2016 Number of Pages: 1632 Summary Preface Features Contents References

Features

• Includes nearly 4,000 linear partial differential equations with solutions
• Considers equations of parabolic, hyperbolic, elliptic, mixed, and other types
• Addresses equations arising in various applications, including heat and mass transfer, hydrodynamics, gas dynamics, elasticity, acoustics, electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, chemical engineering sciences, electrical engineering, and other fields
• Offers a broad choice of reliable solution methods and shows by specific examples how to use these methods
• Discusses symbolic and numerical methods for solving PDEs with Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB®
• Describes a number of new linear equations, exact solutions, transformations, and methods on par with the progress of science
• Contains several times more specific science and engineering linear equations and exact solutions than any other book currently available
• Provides a database of test problems for numerical and approximate methods for solving linear PDEs and equations of mathematical physics

New to the second edition

• More than 700 pages with over 1,500 new first-, second-, third-, fourth-, and higher-order linear equations with solutions
• Systems of coupled partial differential equations with solutions
• Some analytical methods, including decomposition methods and their applications
• Symbolic and numerical methods for solving linear PDEs with Maple, Mathematica, and MATLAB®
• Many new problems, illustrative examples, tables, and figures