PDE's in Electrical Engineering

Lacero · Jul 19, 2008

Are PDE's used in an electrical engineering undergrad curriculum? If so, in what areas and for what.

Thank you.

Lacero · Jul 20, 2008

Signals? magnets? circuits?

tiny iota · Jul 21, 2008

I think I remember using them in some classes for electromagnetic fields & waves. I'm more of a controls/signal processing/power guy and I don't use them regularly.

berkeman · Jul 21, 2008

Lacero said:

Are PDE's used in an electrical engineering undergrad curriculum? If so, in what areas and for what.

Thank you.

Yes. Maxwell's equations would be a good example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

And vector operations like Gradient, Curl and Laplacian use partial derivatives.

PDE's in Electrical Engineering

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