A unified transform method for solving linear and certain nonlinear PDEs

Author(s):  
A. S. Fokas
2018 ◽  
Vol 339 ◽  
pp. 738-749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arran Fernandez ◽  
Dumitru Baleanu ◽  
Athanassios S. Fokas

Author(s):  
Jian Xu ◽  
Engui Fan

We implement the unified transform method to the initial-boundary value (IBV) problem of the Sasa–Satsuma equation on the half line. In addition to presenting the basic Riemann–Hilbert formalism, which linearizes this IBV problem, we also analyse the associated general Dirichlet to Neumann map using the so-called global relation.


Author(s):  
Darren G. Crowdy ◽  
Elena Luca

A new approach to solving problems of Wiener–Hopf type is expounded by showing its implementation in two concrete and typical examples from fluid mechanics. The new method adapts mathematical ideas underlying the so-called unified transform method due to A. S. Fokas and collaborators in recent years. The method has the key advantage of avoiding what is usually the most challenging part of the usual Wiener–Hopf approach: the factorization of kernel functions into sectionally analytical functions. Two example boundary value problems, involving both harmonic and biharmonic fields, are solved in detail. The approach leads to fast and accurate schemes for evaluation of the solutions.


2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Deconinck ◽  
Qi Guo ◽  
Eli Shlizerman ◽  
Vishal Vasan

Author(s):  
E. A. Spence ◽  
A. S. Fokas

A new method for solving boundary-value problems (BVPs) for linear and certain nonlinear PDEs was introduced by one of the authors in the late 1990s. For linear PDEs, this method constructs novel integral representations (IRs) that are formulated in the Fourier (transform) space. In a previous paper, a simplified way of obtaining these representations was presented. In the current paper, first, the second ingredient of the new method, namely the derivation of the so-called ‘global relation’ (GR)—an equation involving transforms of the boundary values—is presented. Then, using the GR as well as the IR derived in the previous paper, certain BVPs in polar coordinates are solved. These BVPs elucidate the fact that this method has substantial advantages over the classical transform method.


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