Applications of PDE

1. Fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer, and electromagnetic theory are all modeled
by PDEs and all have plenty of real life applications.

For example:

 Fluid mechanics is used to understand how the circulatory system works, how
to get rockets and planes to fly, and even to some extent how the weather
behaves.

 Heat and mass transfer is used to understand how drug delivery devices work,
how kidney dialysis works, and how to control heat for temperature-sensitive
things. It probably also explains why thermoses work!

 Electromagnetism is used for all electricity out.

 The diffusion equation can model heat propagation, as well as diffusion of

particles in a gas for instance. Even Einstein himself derived this equation in
one of his Annus Mirabilis papers from 1905: “Investigations on the theory of
the Brownian movement”. This equation led Einstein to be able to determine the
size of atoms.

 The wave equation models the propagation of waves of different nature and in
different media. The transverse vibrations in an elastic membrane.

 Suppose right now, in Palmetto Bay, it is storming quite a bit. The PDEs that
describe weather systems predicted that we would have heavy rain starting about
when the deluge came, and that convinced me not to go biking this afternoon like I
had planned. Given the sheets of rain coming down, I am very thankful that we
understand those PDEs well enough to tell residents not to go for a long bike ride or
run on days where localized heavy rain is probable.

2. Functions in real world mostly depend on many parameters e.g: Temperature is a

function of several parameters such as Time, Latitude, Longitude, Altitude. PDEs used to
model this type of functions with many factors very precisely.
3. Most important applications of these equations arise in finding the solutions of boundary
value problems in the theory of PDEs of the second order. Few most famous PDEs
(linear) come as elliptic type, specifically, to the Laplace, Poisson, and Helmholtz
equations wherein lie the most interesting and important achievements of the theory of
PDEs.
4. One of the commonly known PDEs are the Navier–Stokes equations which describe the
flow of viscous fluid substances.
5. The elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations play a substantial role in
understanding problem related to flow, heat motion of free fall body and at microscopic
level motion of electron by using Schrodinger equation.
6. PDEs are inexpensively used in Fourier series, Taylor series, Laplace transformation
and more. These series are mostly used in wireless transmissions and alternating
current transmissions and their breaking up into sin and cosine functions.