496 Hornogeneous Difference Schemes for Time-Dependent Equations
- A periodic problem. vVe are now interested in the proble1n of the heat
distribution over a unifonn thin circlic ring 0 < <p < 27!" of radius l'o:
OU
ot'
a^2 [J2u
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r5 o<p2 ,^0 < <p <^2 7l" , t' >^0 J
A unique detern1ination of a solution u( <p, t') necessitates imposing
the condition of periodicity
u( <p + 27r, t') = u( <p, t') for any <p E [O, 2 7r],
which, in turn, can be replaced by the condition of conjugation at the point
<p = 0:
u(O + 0, t') = u(2 7r - 0, t'), oul
O<p <p=IJ+U
oul
O<p <p=2rr-O.
By interchanging the variable5
the seg1nent 0 < <p < 27r is carried into the segn1ent 0 < :e < 1. In view of
this, the governing equation is 111odified into
OU
ot
O<x<l, i>O, u(x,0) = u 0 (x),
u(O + 0, t) = u(l - 0, t),
which is not surprising. On the grid
ou(O + 0, t)
ox
ou(l - 0, t)
ox
wh ={xi= ih, i = 0, 1, ... , N, h = 1/N}
we have occasion to use the simplest implicit sche1ne
Yt = ~h u , 0 < x = i h < 1 , t = j T > 0 , y( x, 0) = u 0 (a:) ,
which is supple1nentecl by the condition
Yo= YN