The generalized wave equation revisited

DOI10.1080/0020739950260514MaRDI QIDQ4359983zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Gisele Ducati, E. C. de Oliveira

Publication date 25 November 1997

Published in International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/0020739950260514

zbMATH Keywords

generalized D'Alembert wave equation Tricomi equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Solutions to PDEs in closed form (35C05) Second-order hyperbolic equations (35L10)

Review text

The classical homogeneous D'Alembert wave equation is always a hyperbolic partial differential equation and can be written in the form \(\partial^2u/\partial x\partial y= 0\): the solution is given in terms of two arbitrary functions. The D'Alembert wave equation is related to a light cone with fixed angle of special relativity. The generalized D'Alembert wave equation is a Tricomi equation of the second kind and in two cases, we show that it is possible to reduce it to the form \(\partial^2u/\partial \xi\partial\eta=0\). However, the generalized D'Alembert wave equation is related to a light cone with variable overture and when the radius \(R\to\infty\), we obtain the classical results.

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