initial-value problem

initial-value problem

[i′nish·əl ¦val·yü ‚präb·ləm]
(fluid mechanics)
A dynamical problem whose solution determines the state of a system at all times subsequent to a given time at which the state of the system is specified by given initial conditions; the initial-value problem is contrasted with the steady-state problem, in which the state of the system remains unchanged in time. Also known as transient problem.
(mathematics)
An n th-order ordinary or partial differential equation in which the solution and its first (n- 1) derivatives are required to take on specified values at a particular value of a given independent variable.
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Instead of calculating the transverse dynamic spin susceptibility from a Dyson-type integral equation with a dynamic exchange-correlation kernel, as is usually done, the key idea advanced here is to reformulate it as the solution of an initial-value problem in the time domain.
In this study we briefly review the nonlinear nonlocal model and its approximate models for unidirectional wave propagation and then compare numerically the solutions of the exact model with the solutions of the approximate models for an initial-value problem. In particular, we consider an initial-value problem for the nonlocal model with initial data strictly compatible with the solitary wave solution of the KdV equation or the BBM equation and then use a finite-difference scheme to solve the initial-value problem numerically.
In our ONR-funded study, we use a semianalytic Fourier-Laplace method to solve the complete initial-value problem for linear waves forced by an idealized tsunami at the lower boundary.
to approximate the solution y(x) of the initial-value problem at [x.sub.0] + h, the end of one step of length h.
Denote q(t) = q(t; [r.sub.m], [[epsilon].sub.m]) the solutions of the initial-value problem
Equation (2) was first introduced in [12] and both global existence and blow-up results for solutions of the initial-value problem with initial data in appropriate function spaces were established.
When an initial-value problem is stiff, one will typically observe that a code based on an explicit scheme will need to use extremely small stepsizes in order to compute a stable solution as opposed to one based on an implicit scheme.

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