The Method of characteristics

References: [C] Cooper (pp. 19 - 30, [T-W] Tveito-Winther (10 - 28) (perhaps just a few pages starting on p. 10).

Matlab codes:

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• Explain the method with various examples.
• Exercises 2.2 pp. 27 - 30 include 8 problems. Some of them are well explained and some use the above -codes.
• Look at some problems and/or examples in [T-W] as well.
• Look at tools, like PDEplot in DEtools