GEM 601 Advanced Engineering Mathematics 1

Homework Exercises: Special Functions

1. Solve the following equations in terms of Bessel functions:

a) x 2 y' ' 2 xy' 1  x  y  0 b) x 2 y' ' 2 xy'  x 4  x 2  2 y  0  
2. Show that
d
dx
J x   
  1
x2

 1 J x   1x J 1  x  .

 x J x dx  x 
 4 x J 1 x   2 x 2 J 0 x   c .
3 3
3. Show that 0

4. Perform each of the following differentiation/integration:

(a)
d 2
dx
x J 3 2 x  (b)
d
dx

xJ 0 x 2 
(c)  x 3 J 2 3 x dx (d)  x12 J 3 2 x dx

5. Expand f  x   x , 0  x  3 , in a Fourier Bessel series, using Bessel functions of order one that satisfy the
boundary condition J1 3   J1' 3   0 .

6. A cylinder of height h and radius b is initially at temperature u  100 throughout. At t  0 the temperature
over both ends and the curved surface of the cylinder is suddenly reduced to 0 and held at that value
thereafter. Find the temperature at any point in the cylinder at any subsequent time.

1 0    4
7. Find the steady-state temperature in the quarter circular plate sketched below if u c ,    .
   
0 4 2
The flat faces of the thin sheet are insulated.

 
2

insulated

c
0
insulated

0 1  x  0
8. Expand f  x    in a series of Legendre Polynomials.
x 0  x 1
9. The steady-state temperature in a hemisphere of radius r  c is determined from
 2u
r 2
 2r ur  r12  2u
 2
 cotr 2 u
 0
with the conditions
(a) u r , 2   0 , 0rc (b) u c ,   f  , 0   
2

Solve for u r ,  . [Note that Pn 0   0 only if n is odd.]

10. Find the steady-state temperature u r ,  within a hollow sphere a  r  b if its inner surface r  a is kept
at temperature f   and its outer surface r  b is kept at temperature zero.
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