Jeffrey Ovall

The Fariborz Maseeh Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Portland State University (PSU) is hosting the 27th Pacific Northwest Numerical Analysis Seminar (PNWNAS). PNWNAS brings together people interested in computational mathematics from...

It is well-known that a function 𝑢=𝑢(𝑡,𝑥)u=u(t,x) describing the behavior of acoustic or electromagnetic waves in time and space can often be decomposed as an infinite sum 𝑢(𝑡,𝑥)=∑𝑛=1∞𝑐𝑛(𝑡)𝜓𝑛(𝑥) ,u(t,x)=∑n=1∞cn(t)ψn(x) , where each term in the sum is...