MA2020-Differential Equations

Assignment 9

1. A square plate of side π units occupying the region 0 ≤ x ≤ π, 0 ≤ y ≤ π has its edges
x = 0, x = π, y = π insulated. The side y = 0 is kept at temperature u(x, 0) = x, 0 < x < π.

Find the steady state temperature distribution in the plate.

Ans:
∞
c0 X
u(x, y) = + cn cos nx cosh n(y − π)
2 n=1
where
2
c0 = π, cn = [cos nπ − 1], n = 1, 2, 3, · · ·
n2 π cosh nπ
2. A thin plate occupying the region 0 ≤ x ≤ 1, 0 ≤ y ≤ 1 has the edges y = 0 and y = 1

maintained at 0o c. The edge x = 0 is maintained at the temperature y(1 − y), 0 < y < 1.
The edge x = 1 is insulated. Find the steady state temperature distribution in the plate.
Ans:
∞
X
u(x, y) = cn cosh nπ(x − 1) sin(nπy)
n=1

where
4
cn = [1 − (−1)n ], n = 1, 2, 3, · · ·
n3 π 3 cosh nπ
3. Solve

uxx + uyy = 0, 0 < x < π, 0 < y < π,

u(0, y) = u(π, y) = 0, 0 < y < π,

u(x, π) = 0, 0 < x < π,

u(x, 0) = sin2 (x), 0 < x < π.

Ans:
∞
X 4[(−1)n − 1]
u(x, y) = 2
sinh(n(π − y)) sin nx
n=1 nπ(n − 4) sinh nπ

4. A rectangular plate with insulated surface is 10cm wide and so long compared to its width
that it may be considered infinite in length without introducing appreciable error. If the

temperature of the short edge y = 0 is given by



 20x, 0 ≤ x ≤ 5
u(x, 0) =
20(10 − x), 5 ≤ x ≤ 10


and the two long edges x = 0, x = 10 as well as the other short edge are kept at 0o c, find
the steady state temperature distribution in the plate.

Ans:
∞
800 nπ nπx −nπy/10
X    
u(x, y) = 2 2
sin sin e .
n=1 n π 2 10
5. A plate is in the form of a semi-infinite strip 0 ≤ x ≤ L, 0 ≤ y < ∞. The edges
 
3πx
x = 0 and x = L are insulated and the edge y = 0 is kept at the temperature 2 cos L
+
 
4πx
3 cos L
, 0 ≤ x ≤ L. Find the stedy state temperature u(x, y) in the plate assuming that
limy→∞ u(x, y) = 0, 0 ≤ x ≤ L.

Ans:
3πx −3πy/L 4πx −4πy/L
   
u(x, y) = 2 cos e + 3 cos e
L L
6. Find u satisfying

1 1
urr + ur + 2 uθθ = 0, ; 0 ≤ θ ≤ 2π, r < 1,
r r

subjected to the boundary condition

2
(a) u(1, θ) = 10
 cos −πθ, 0 ≤ θ ≤ 2π.
π
 θ, 2 ≤ θ < 2

(b) u(1, θ) =
0, π2 ≤ θ < 3π


2
.
Ans:

(a) u(r, θ) = 5(1 + r2 cos 2θ)

∞
2 nπ
rn
X
(b) u(r, θ) = 2
sin sin nθ
n=1 πn 2
7. Find u satisfying
1 1
urr + ur + 2 uθθ = 0, 0 ≤ θ ≤ π, r < 1,
r r
subjected to the boundary conditions

u(r, 0) = 0 = u(r, π), u(1, θ) = 10θ(π − θ), 0 ≤ θ ≤ π.

Ans:
∞
40
(1 − cos nπ)rn sin nθ
X
u(r, θ) = 3
n=1 πn
8. u(r, θ) is a function satisfying

1 1 π
urr + ur + 2 uθθ = 0, ; 0 ≤ θ ≤ , a < r < b.
r r 2

If its value along the boundary r = a is θ( π2 − θ) and is zero on the remaining part of the
boundary, then prove that
∞
2X ( rb )4n−2 − ( rb )4n−2 sin(4n − 2)θ
u(r, θ) =
π n=1 ( ab )4n−2 − ( ab )4n−2 (2n − 1)3