14.2 Cylindrical Coordinates
INTRODUCTION
In this section we are going to consider boundary-value problems involving forms of the heat and wave equation in polar coordinates and a form of Laplace’s equation in cylindrical coordinates. There is a commonality throughout the examples and most of the exercises—the boundary-value problem possesses radial symmetry.
Radial Symmetry
The two-dimensional heat and wave equations
expressed in polar coordinates are, in turn,
(1)
where u = u(r θ, t). To solve a boundary-value problem involving either of ...
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