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Lecture 24: Computation of the heat equation III

Example 15.4: Solution of the inhomogeneous Dirichlet problem

This lecture starts off with Example 15.4 from the notes, where we look to solve ut=uxxu(0,t)=2,u(π,t)=1u(x,0)=0.

We show that the solution is given by u(x,t)=U(x)+n=1Bnsin(nx)en2t where we have found the steady-state solution U(x)=2xπ, as well as the coefficients Bn=2nπ[(1)n2].