May 22, 2012 Solving (Nonlinear) First-Order PDEs
people.cam.cornell.edu › ~zc227 › extrasThe general setting we will be applying ourselves in is solving a PDE on ⊆Rn: œ F(Du;u;x)=0 in u(x)=g(x) on @: (1.1) We see in the following example that we may not always have smooth solutions in the nonlinear cases, despite smoothness of @.. 1.1 Example: Eikonal solution on a square Example 1.1. Consider the domain =[0;1]2 łR2 œ 1 2 u2 x+ 1 2 y= 1 in u=0 on =@: