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Advanced Partial Differential Equations with Applications.
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Some interesting pictures:
Check this cool photo(!) of a sonic boom: link to NASA.
Hyperbolic p.d.e.: the two pictures below correspond to
the "Sine-Gordon" equation
utt - uxx + sin(u) = 0.
The figure on the left illustrates the spreading of a localized initial disturbance at characteristic speeds, while the figure on the right depicts the collision of a kink with a breather.
The figure on the left illustrates the spreading of a localized initial disturbance at characteristic speeds, while the figure on the right depicts the collision of a kink with a breather.
