446 INDEX
second-order scalar semilinear, 81, 271
canonical form, 86
travelling wave, 276
stability analysis, 282
two-by-two system, 42
uniqueness theorem, 248
upper solution, 281
parabolic inequality, 248
parabolic maximum principle, 241
parabolic reflector, 385
parameter identification, 393
Parseval's formula, 110
particle path, 410
permittivity, 132
Pfaffian, 50
phase separation, 282
pitchfork bifurcation, 221
plane strain, 158
Plemelj formulae, 200
Poisson integral, 17L
Poisson summation formula, 256
Poisson's equation, 152, 164
classical solution, 109
comparison theorem, 162
continuous dependence on data, 168
Green's function
classical formulation, 169
Dirichlet problem in circle, 124
Dirichlet problem in half-space, 1Z6
Dirichlet problem in rectangle, 119
Dirichlet problem in sphere, 116
Dirichlet problem in strip, 129
Dirichlet problem in wedge, 198
Dirichlet problem outside circle, 115
in all It", 113
Neumann problem in circle, 1Z6
Neumann problem in half-space, 1Z6
Neumann problem outside circle, 126
Robin boundary condition, 1Z1
singularity in Rm, 1Z3
via distributions, 171
maximum principle, 167
uniqueness theorem, 164
variational principle, 168
vector, 153
weak solution, 168
population dynamics, 271
porous medium equation, 272
l3arenblatt- Pattle solution, 278
conserved quantities, 327
free boundary condition, 31.3
shape of Mount Fuji, 278
similarity solution, 275. 277
weak solution, 338
porous medium flow, see Darcy flow
potential flow, 155, 411
Prandtl boundary layer equation, 274
principal eigenvalue, 183
principal part, 3 11
principal value integral, 128
principle of least action, 328
proof-reading, errrors in, L 29
propagation of discontinuities
first-order m x n system, 66
first-order scalar linear equation, 20
first-order scalar quasilinear equation, 20
in dependent variable, 106
second-order linear hyperbolic equation,
1111
quasilinear equation
first-order scalar, 8
bicharacteristic, 2Z
blow-up, 14, 18
Cauchy data, 8
characteristic projections, 10
characteristic surface, 26
characteristics, 9 20
classical solution, 10. 19
domain of definition, 13
integral surface, 6
local existence, 11
parametric solution, 10
propagation of discontinuities, 20
solution surface, &
weak solution, 19
second-order scalar, BZ
quasilinear system
first-order, 41
one real characteristic, 407
radiation, 272
optically thick medium, 273
radiation condition, 181
elastic waves, 405
electromagnetic waves. 4114
linear system, 403
Sommerfeld problem, 192
Radon transform, U2
random walk, 243
Rankine-Hugoniot condition
and Stefan problem, 335
detonation, 02
first-order m x a system, 67
free boundary problems, 314
inviscid hydrodynamics, 31,4
porous medium equation, 276
scalar conservation law, 24
unsteady one-dimensional gas dynamics,
63
vector conservation law, 56
ray, 366
complex, 374
ray cone, 65
anisotropic electromagnetic waves, 133
linear elasticity, 130
two-dimensional acoustics, 65
Rayleigh quotient, 183
Rayleigh wave, 140
reaction-diffusion equation, 245, 2Z1