Well Posed PDEs for Modeling Damped Strings

A large class of well posed PDEs is given by [45]

Thus, to the ideal string wave equation Eq.(C.1) we add any number of even-order partial derivatives in , plus any number of mixed odd-order partial derivatives in and , where differentiation with respect to occurs only once. Because every member of this class of PDEs is only second-order in time, it is guaranteed to be well posed, as shown in §D.2.2.

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About the Author: Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.