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PDE 5 | Method of characteristics

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 เม.ย. 2011
  • An introduction to partial differential equations.
    PDE playlist: www.youtube.com...
    Part 5 topics:
    -- the method of characteristics
    -- applying the method to the transport equation (6:40)
    -- non-homogeneous transport (12:04)

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  • @AinNoNey
    @AinNoNey 12 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    I hate the fact that understanding it in my second language is lot easier than in my native one. Believe me or not, math in English seems much more acquirable. At least I don't fall asleep after 30 seconds. Cheers from Poland. You've just gone international ;)

    • @McSwagical
      @McSwagical 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hello from hk, china o/

  • @20matrixman
    @20matrixman 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Usually I don't like these types of videos since I prefer reading from a textbook, but this video was super clear. Every source I tried to read online for characteristic curves was just needlessly complicated and assumed too much prior knowledge. Well done!

  • @guitarofwar4935
    @guitarofwar4935 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Absolutely loved this. The exercise at the end was so helpful for using the method of characteristics. No-one learns just by watching.

  • @lejakke
    @lejakke 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    just discovered this and i did not expected this video to be already 9 years old, beautiful graphics and way of presentation

  • @bartoszdrzygaa3179
    @bartoszdrzygaa3179 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Just want to say, you are awesome. This is the best series on PDEs I've seen on YT. I love the way you use examples, like with a moving cart, to visualize what's behind the equations.

  • @elliemokhtari7700
    @elliemokhtari7700 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Your videos are awesome, I am graduate student and I use your videos for my PDE cours and I learn each and every of your videos, Thank you so much

  • @bjar2
    @bjar2 9 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Great videos; well explained, easy to understand and good progress pace. Thank you! :-)

  • @imagedezach
    @imagedezach 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for these videos on method of characteristics. Yours are the only ones I've found that explain this topic clearly and concisely.

  • @kenmcc85
    @kenmcc85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is magic - thank-you for making it so much easier to understand than textbooks make it

  • @damgnj
    @damgnj 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love when someone explain something in math easy, like in this video. Thanks!

  • @DANISHKHAN-cv1ox
    @DANISHKHAN-cv1ox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    this is the only explanation which solved all my doubts. Finally understood the meaning of the phrase "solution propagates along characteristics"

  • @livpoolmad
    @livpoolmad 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wasn't talking about burgers equation. What I was trying to say was with
    du/dt + c(t)du/dx=0 the constant is changing with time meaning equation 2 in the solution:
    du/dt=0 (1)
    dx/dt=c(t) (2)
    has to be solved numerically using eulers method or another technique (Runge Kutta etc).

  • @ammarshaikh876
    @ammarshaikh876 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you! Your illustrations in the video about observer and the wave are helpful. Before, I was not able to understand what phenomena this PDE was describing

  • @hadadvitor
    @hadadvitor 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Extremely helpful, commutant! You have the best PDE videos in TH-cam! Thanks!

  • @smath82
    @smath82 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was helpful and also wonderful, really really well done. Thanks a million.

  • @SaiPraneeth21
    @SaiPraneeth21 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excellent video, the it was smooth as butter to understand
    Thanks a lot.

  • @superphilschneider
    @superphilschneider 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hi commutant, thanks for a very good video. Doing what you did in this video is not easy, so nice going. I'm trying to learn my engineering mathematics again, but this time properly, so videos like yours are very helpful. What happens in the original PDE when the wave propagation speed, c, is not a constant? If c depends only on time, t, then I think it's not so bad, but what about when c depends on x. Do you have a video for that?

  • @haniehsoleimani6096
    @haniehsoleimani6096 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    helped me a lot, thanks. It is much clear than any text book explanation.

  • @ZappelFly
    @ZappelFly 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    du/dt + u du/dt=0 is the so-called burgers equation and it's well studied in every pde-textbook. For example Lawrence C. Evans - Partial Differential Equations

  • @cristianegrossiferrarezzi1716
    @cristianegrossiferrarezzi1716 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks a lot for the video. I was trying to understand this method for a long time and your explanation solved all of my doubts. I would be so thankful if you could make a video about Duhamel's Theorem. Thank you! ;)

  • @scfog90
    @scfog90 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wow, what a great explanation. Somehow our professor made it impossible to understand

  • @VicenteMReyes-vs9nh
    @VicenteMReyes-vs9nh 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You are a very good teacher/explainer/illustrator. Are you a mathematician or a physicist by formal training? Do you have a doctoral degree and are you a tenured faculty member at a college or university in the US? Thank you very much for posting these useful videos. More power to you.

  • @123Handbuch
    @123Handbuch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I think the initial condition should be written as u(x,0)=sin(x_0), no? You are using it at 14:31 as sin(x_0) - for me, x_0 describes a fixed x at t=0 whereas u(x,0)=sin(x) doesn't fix x.
    I currently think of it as u(x(t),0)=sin(x(t)) and so sin(x_0)=sin(x(0)), this also makes clear that the very last step, where we put x-ct into sin is derived form the fact that dx/dt=c. (Anyway, I like to be pedantic so I think I'll need to think some more about it, when is it actually x and when x(t))

  • @harryliu4907
    @harryliu4907 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is a very enlightening method! Thanks for posting this question!

  • @TheYahya701
    @TheYahya701 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Nice lecture. BTW, which software did you use to write on the blackbaord?

  • @giovanbattistacavadini7706
    @giovanbattistacavadini7706 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Better expllained than in a Master Degree lecture at ETH Zürich which I took

  • @arturo3511
    @arturo3511 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    it seems this is true if we have u(x(t)) but here u(x,t) has an explicit dependence on t, so it's not necessarily u along a path. we could have u(x,t) = 2x(t)+t for example

  • @bassammkeh
    @bassammkeh 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    du/dt = 1 along characteristics lines but in boundary condition u(x,0) = sin(x) --> du/dt = 0 how ???

  • @SHONSL
    @SHONSL 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Ah yes, I appreciate the exercise at the end. I'm studying PDEs as much as I can before I take the class, and would love to be ahead. Thorough lesson. easiest subscription.

    • @reimannx33
      @reimannx33 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Big deal! Stop desperately trying to fill your low self esteem by announcing such worthless details.

  • @lucascosta2338
    @lucascosta2338 7 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    hey commutant, which book did you use to study PDEs??

    • @ddeakpeti
      @ddeakpeti 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Peter O'Neil, Beginning PDE: An Introdution to therory, 3rd Ed.

  • @wronski11
    @wronski11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Isn't 4:22 to be a total derivative on the rhs and partials on the lhs.

  • @darkaliebaba99
    @darkaliebaba99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Could someone clear a confusion up for me: Whats the difference between du/dt and u_t ? The way i interpret them is like du/dt = lim_{h->0} [u(x(t+h), t+h) - u(x(t), t)]/h, and u_t = lim_{h->0} [u(x(t), t+h) - u(x(t), t)]/h, But thats just my best guess, i dont know. Can someone explain to me if its not that and what it actually is?

  • @ronitkumar5152
    @ronitkumar5152 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Suppose the initial condition is u(x,0)=U_0 then what would be u(x,t)?

  • @earendilthebright5402
    @earendilthebright5402 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was excellent, thankyou very much.

  • @thecatsister3040
    @thecatsister3040 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am confused by the initial condition, it says that when t=o, u=sin(x) NOT sin(x0). Could someone explain this because they are different initial value.

    • @pvaughn495
      @pvaughn495 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      shorthand for saying u(x,0) = sin(x)

    • @stefanosm8223
      @stefanosm8223 ปีที่แล้ว

      x0=const.=x-ct and this is the solution of dx/dt=c .So as you see, sin(x0)=sin(x-ct). For every value of t, the x value is a dependent value so as x-ct=x0=const. So ,if t=0, x=x0 .

  • @olgahere
    @olgahere 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love your explanation!

  • @arminebner2846
    @arminebner2846 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    good video. your curve red line describing x(t) does not match dx/dt =c, which is a more particular case.

  • @mateusciola
    @mateusciola 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    but if u(x,t) = t + sin(x-ct), then du/dt = -c.cos(x-ct) + 1, what is different than the initial condition du/dt = 1. Where am I mistaken??

    • @PIYUSHTAILORstillalive
      @PIYUSHTAILORstillalive 8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      +mateusciola when we take du/dt=1,we take at the point when t=0,and as for general case u(x,t)=t+sin(x-ct)..For more assistance see question ,it is written u(x,0)=sinx

    • @AnnuFzd
      @AnnuFzd 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +PIYUSH TAILOR . Sale Sab padh liya tune. !

    • @PIYUSHTAILORstillalive
      @PIYUSHTAILORstillalive 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      +Satyam Agrawal ha ha ha...bhai bhai..

    • @antonispanayi7220
      @antonispanayi7220 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Satyam Agrawal

  • @mohamedboushab5547
    @mohamedboushab5547 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thanks for your explanation. is it working just in linear PDI ?

  • @busracalsr2687
    @busracalsr2687 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    i cannot solve the question. can u help me please?
    Given the linear equation: Ux-Uy=0 with the initial conditions: x(0,s)=0, y(0,s)=s, u(0,s)=g(s) where g(s) is an arbitrary differentiable function.
    a) Write the Characterist equations: a(x,y,u)Ux+b(x,y,u)Uy=c(x,y,u)
    dx = a(x,y,u) (1) dy = b(x,y,u) (2) du = c(x,y,u) (3)
    dt dt dt
    b) Integrate equations (1-2), use the initial conditions and determine x and y interms of the parameters t and s, then inverting these, write t and s interms of x and y.
    c) Integrate equations (3), use the initial conditions and determine u interms of t and s and then write u interms of x and y:u(x,y)

  • @andrec.2935
    @andrec.2935 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excelente vídeo!

  • @VamanNeurekar
    @VamanNeurekar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    amazing explanation! Thanks a lot!!!

  • @Zwaks
    @Zwaks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I was able to solve the Exercise at the end using the characteristic method. However, I still feel confused and don't know why?

    • @jeffreyseverino4486
      @jeffreyseverino4486 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was also confused, but then i realized that du/dt = 1 -> du=dt, integrate both sides , you get u(x_0,t) = t - C, then apply initial conditions to see that x_0 = x at t=0 from x_0 = x-ct , and you also get C = sin(x_0) = sin(x), I use C he uses A, potato potato.

  • @manelsouguir8126
    @manelsouguir8126 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    good explanation , thanks you for this great work !

  • @ZappelFly
    @ZappelFly 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great job! It's a pleasure to watch you :)

  • @hikikomorihachiman7491
    @hikikomorihachiman7491 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Could you somebody explain the chain rule at 4:24 ?
    I watched chain rule and it’s derivating from outside to inside, right?
    So how come there’s a addition thing in there?

    • @afewofmyfavoritethings
      @afewofmyfavoritethings 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think he actually makes a mistake here. If what he has there is true, since u_t is just another way to write du/dt, then you would be left with u_x*dx/dt = 0 since u_t would cancel from both sides of this equation.

  • @yinggling
    @yinggling 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When du/dt=1,u=t+A.
    Could you tell me what happened when du/dt=other number(like 1/2, 3 etc) or a function?

  • @oTwOrDsNe
    @oTwOrDsNe 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why do we never say anything about u_x? It seems like it is just treated as 0, but how do we arrive at this?

  • @rametsesam6925
    @rametsesam6925 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am struggling to solve an advection equation given by [ u_t + u_x = 0 ; u(0,t) = Sin 4pi t and u(x,0) = 0] . any tips?

  • @MathStar100
    @MathStar100 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very well explained. Thank you

  • @shahfuhaid
    @shahfuhaid 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:37 shouldn’t it be f(x ⁰) instead of f(x)? Thanks a lot for making all this!

  • @chendian-jing6037
    @chendian-jing6037 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great! Very simply and conceptually introduce PDE

  • @abdulrahmanmagdy6158
    @abdulrahmanmagdy6158 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks from the bottom of my heart

  • @christianibron
    @christianibron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great stuff!

  • @THIBS3394
    @THIBS3394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    omg too tired sorry for the post if the partial derivative of u with respect to t is 1 minus the product of the constant and the partial derivative of U with respect to x then it has to be 1 by eliminating the
    the minus minus the product of the constant and the partial derivative of U with respect to x but I kept thinking there is something off with my thinking.

  • @Physiologist
    @Physiologist 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Why is du/dt essentially equal to 1 in the first hint??

  • @cyberdarknes
    @cyberdarknes 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    thank you very much! Great video!

  • @ankurc
    @ankurc 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    hello commutant, you don't discuss the way to solve PDE this way: dx/something=dy/something=dz/something?? I can't see it anywhere. My teacher uses this to solve PDE in class and he doesn't explain anything, So I'm not sure whether I should continue with your videos series or not? Please help. I'm new to PDE! :-( I really love your videos as it is like Khan Academy but I'm not sure whether it has everything I need or not?

    • @ankurc
      @ankurc 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      沈轲 so does he discuss the dx/p dx/q dx/z method in his PDE video series? Don't call it " my ways " friend, I don't have much idea about it I saw my teacher do it at school that's it. :-P

  • @AnnuFzd
    @AnnuFzd 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    9:00 . You say " u is constant along the line ." It's not. u is only constant with respect to time. Thus, the surface that u represent can change it's height. But the heights once made would not change with time. Please Explain.

    • @username17234
      @username17234 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +Satyam Agrawal u is a function of 2 variables, which means you can plot it in a plane with the height or 3rd coordinate being the value of u. Along certain lines in the plane the height is constant, those lines with slope 1/c in this case.

  • @davantiah
    @davantiah 13 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for all the help. Really appreciated. However, what would one do if given following transport equation:
    du/dt (x,t) + du/dx (x,t) = 0; x> 0; t>0;
    u(x,0)=0; x>0;
    u(0,t)=sin t : t>0
    I am slightly confused with how these two come together on the x-t plane and on the line x=t. Thanks

    • @stefanosm8223
      @stefanosm8223 ปีที่แล้ว

      You must solve it with Laplace transform. u(0,t)=sint becomes U(0,s)=1/(s^2-1) .You must also transform the p.d.e equation to Laplace. The answer : u(x,t)= δ(t-x) * sint = integral of 0 to t( δ(τ-x) sin(t-τ)dτ)

  • @matthewblom1620
    @matthewblom1620 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very nice video

  • @jacobclaassen4709
    @jacobclaassen4709 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    isn't the solution to the transport equation just some u(x-ct) because it's just a translation of a graph over time? I don't really see why we need PDE for this.

  • @johnfox17
    @johnfox17 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you! This was very helpful!

  • @panster7982
    @panster7982 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    could you explain how u got at 04:13? How did the product rule suddenly come to the picture. I understand u are differentiating (x(t),t), but somehow I got lost at that point

  • @livpoolmad
    @livpoolmad 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    what if the constant is changing with time
    du/dt + v(t) du/dx = 0
    How would that be solved?

  • @22Kyu
    @22Kyu 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is Soo Good :) Thanks commutant!

  • @UnforsakenXII
    @UnforsakenXII 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks broseph.

  • @ZappelFly
    @ZappelFly 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Do you write with your mouse or is it some kind of e-board/pad?

  • @sunildhaka4528
    @sunildhaka4528 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    JUST Awesome Buddy!! Keep it up ##$$

  • @curtpiazza1688
    @curtpiazza1688 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great!

  • @shivakumarcd
    @shivakumarcd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    at 6:26 youtube stat shows highest watched!!! so accurate

    • @shivakumarcd
      @shivakumarcd 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      instead of f(x-ct) if we use U_0(x-ct) it may be more convenient.. as my professor did..

  • @jeanconstantinople2328
    @jeanconstantinople2328 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    does the fact that dx/dt = c mean that x and t aren't indepedent ?

    • @vibodhj349
      @vibodhj349 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, indirectly dependent. It is really counter intuitive because there is no obvious entity which is changing the time coordinate when displacement of anything takes place.

  • @TheKoltang
    @TheKoltang 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think the solution become u= 2t+sin(x-ct) right.

  • @drivetobucees2061
    @drivetobucees2061 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    commutant really took us to the hood with this one

  • @Postermaestro
    @Postermaestro 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    good stuff

  • @MileeWilson
    @MileeWilson 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    Really wish you could tutor me.

  • @starship_01
    @starship_01 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    what if f(x)=0??

  • @TheKoltang
    @TheKoltang 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    sorry if du/dt=2 solution should be u= 2t+sin(x-ct)

  • @reemreem7043
    @reemreem7043 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am looking for tutor in pde

  • @chigeh
    @chigeh 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wait but what is C?

  • @THIBS3394
    @THIBS3394 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I missed why dU/dt = 1

  • @yinggling
    @yinggling 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks :)

  • @phantom4902
    @phantom4902 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    goat

  • @johnstfleur3987
    @johnstfleur3987 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    R=1/2.

  • @mickolesmana5899
    @mickolesmana5899 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I clicked this video because I have a question. Leave with many more questions.

  • @cookrileyw
    @cookrileyw ปีที่แล้ว

    I have generally liked most of your videos so far, but this was sloppy, I would like to note that both of your so-called hints are vital revelations needed to understand the concept. And you never explain how du/dt some how implies u=t+a? Moreover, why is (a) somehow sin(×0). In the previous section, all you stated was that u(x,t) = f(x-ct) given the transport equation and that u(x,0)=0. This is simply not enough information to gain any insight.

  • @caslu6578
    @caslu6578 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    not clear at all

  • @DelphianSociety
    @DelphianSociety 11 ปีที่แล้ว

    Oh, come on. You're telling me that you are an MIT chemical engineering GRAD student and you couldn't solve that trivial exercise in an instant? You're bullshitting.

    • @baronvonbeandip
      @baronvonbeandip 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You know this is educational, right?