A New Approach to 'Queer' Differential Equations.
Abstract
Queer differential equations first arose in the work of Harold Grad on controlled thermonuclear fusion. These relate in particular to models for the slow adiabatic evolution and resistive diffusion of a plasma. These are queer in that these share aspects of partial, ordinary and functional differential equations. In this document the authors give a new way of thinking of these equations by relating these to free boundary problems. This is the first of a series of papers intending to demonstrate that solutions of such a queer differential equation can be thought of as limits of solutions of free boundary problems with n-free boundaries. A long term hope is that this work will complement and further refine existing numerical schemes for finding such solutions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA149231
Entities
People
- E. W. Stredulinsky
- P. Laurence
Organizations
- University of Wisconsin–Madison