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Department of Mathematics Syllabus

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MAT 218B: Partial Differential Equations

Approved: 2001-10-12, S. Shkoller
Suggested Textbook: (actual textbook varies by instructor; check your instructor)

Prerequisites:
MAT 218A; or Consent of Instructor.
Course Description:
  • Second Order Parabolic Boundary Value Problems.
  • Weak Solutions, Regularity, and Maximum Principles.
  • Semigroup theory.
  • Nonlinear PDEs.
  • Galerkin methods.
  • Contraction mapping principles.
  • Commutator estimates.
  • Super and Sub Solutions and viscosity solutions.
  • Applications.
  • Elasticity theory.
  • Harmonic map heat flow.
  • Motion by mean curvature.
  • Euler and Navier Stokes Equations.