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Is Mathematica able to rearrange systems of PDEs (NOT solve them)?

Posted 11 years ago

Hello,

I'm trying to achieve the following: I want to use Mathematica to rearrange and resolve a system of PDEs, but I don't want it to give me an analytical or numerical solution. My example would be to do the Falkner-Skan transformation in Mathematica, meaning I have a set of PDEs (Navier-Stokes-eqn), and some "replacements" for the variables, and want the system to be transformed into another one. I can do it on paper, but it's a lot of writing and the potential to make error is really high. So I would prefer to do it with Mathematica, especially since I plan to transform more difficult systems later.

Essentially this process: Falkner Skan Derivation

The final result would be equation (128) in the document, an equation that contains only f and its derivatives, when the given input to Mathematica are definitions of f, eta, psi, etc.

Is this possible?

POSTED BY: Lennart M
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Posted 11 years ago

Then what would be the right way of telling Mathematica what I want? I tried to input my equations e.g. like this

eqn={D[u[x,y],x]+D[v[x,y],y]==0,eta[x,y]==Sqrt[ue/(nu*x)]*y,psi==Sqrt[ue*nu*x]*f
[eta[x,y]],u[x,y]==D[psi[x,y],y],v[x,y]==-D[psi[x,y],x]}
FullSimplify[eqn]

Thus specifying which functions I have, and what their parameters are (u is a function of x and y, f is a function of eta, eta is a function of x and y again, ...) and then using FullSimplify, or Eliminiate[eqn, {x,y}] to get rid of the variables I don't want, but nothing happened, so I guess this is the wrong approach.

POSTED BY: Lennart M
POSTED BY: David Reiss
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