Swets & Zeitlinger Transfer Function Models for Multidimensional Systems with Bounded Spatial Domains (revised Version)

Multidimensional (MD) systems describe relations between signals depending on two or more independent variables. They are also called distributed parameter systems, if the independent variables are time and space. The only conventional models for their description are partial diierential equations. This is in contrast to onedimensional (lumped parameter) systems, where a variety of diierent models including transfer functions is used. This paper extends the concept of transfer function models to multidimensional systems with bounded spatial domains, i.e. systems which can be described as initial-boundary-value problems. These transfer function models are useful for system analysis and as a starting point for the derivation of numerically eecient discrete simulation models.