The determination of a coefficient in a parabolic equation cylindrical coordinates
Author
Gieszl, Louis Roger
Date
1965Advisor
Jones, Frank
Degree
Master of Arts
Abstract
B. F. Jones (Ph.D. Thesis, Rice University, 1961) proved the existence and uniqueness of a solution of a one space variable diffusion equation ut a(t) uxx , where a(t) is an unknown function of time. This article considers the analogous problem for a cylindrical region with symmetry with respect to 8 . In particular, we consider the system (separately for r>1 and r<1) We take the five theorems in Jones' paper as Properties a through e ; and, by taking the appropriate bounds on the function M, we show that L defined by (5) satisfies the five properties. Thus, (1) has a unique solution.