International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2006 (2006), Article ID 42389, 29 pages
doi:10.1155/IJMMS/2006/42389

The decomposition method for linear, one-dimensional, time-dependent partial differential equations

D. Lesnic

Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK

Received 2 December 2005; Revised 15 May 2006; Accepted 20 June 2006

Copyright © 2006 D. Lesnic. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

The analytical solutions for linear, one-dimensional, time-dependent partial differential equations subject to initial or lateral boundary conditions are reviewed and obtained in the form of convergent Adomian decomposition power series with easily computable components. The efficiency and power of the technique are shown for wide classes of equations of mathematical physics.