Partial differential equations for scientists and engineers

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• btrettel · Oct 6, 2017 · Recommends

  Stanley Farlow's "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers" would be my suggestion for an introduction. It's a Dover book, so it's cheap. Look at the book as a set of simple introductions to a large number of PDE related topics, many of which have applications…

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• gattr · Sep 5, 2018 · Recommends

  On a related note, I can recommend Stanley J. Farlow's "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers", which I bought around 2004 to better understand a fluid simulation paper I was trying to implement. (My Maths course ended with linear algebra and ODEs). Very good read with nice physics examples.

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• btrettel · May 3, 2022 · Recommends

  Stanley Farlow's "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers" is a great introduction to partial differential equations. That book was at exactly the right level for me when I was 19 to be introduced to a wide variety of things in differential equations in general.

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• photochemsyn · Aug 20, 2022 · Recommends

  …original nonlinear equation, and to which in turn numerical methods can be applied. Wikipedia has a good writeup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perturbation_theory Quotes from a very good source: "Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and Engineers, Stanley J. Farnow, 1993, Dover" Pure mathematicians tend to oppose the introduction of approximate and computational methods early on, but there's no reason they can't be taught side-by-side with the…

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