in this paper, we investigate the goursat problem in the class c21(d)cn0 (d  p) c00 (d q)for a third order pseudoparabolic equation. some results are given concerning the existence and uniquenessfor the solution of the suggested problem.

A Goursat flag is a chain Ds ⊂ Ds−1 ⊂ D1 ⊂ D0 = TM of subbundles of the tangent bundle TM such that corank Di = i and Di−1 is generated by the vector fields in Di and their Lie brackets. Engel, Goursat, and Cartan studied these flags and established a normal form for them, valid at generic points of M . Recently Kumpera, Ruiz and Mormul discovered that Goursat flags can have singularities, and ...

In this paper, wheeled mobile robots towing trailers are used as examples of systems which can be converted into extended Goursat normal form. For some con gurations of this class of systems, a prolongation of the Pfa an system is necessary before the Goursat form can be achieved. The advantage of the Goursat form is that once the kinematic constraints are in this normal form, the point-to-poin...

Several numerical schemes utilizing central difference approximations have been developed to solve the Goursat problem. However, in a recent years compact discretization methods which leads to high-order finite difference schemes have been used since it is capable of achieving better accuracy as well as preserving certain features of the equation e.g. linearity. The basic idea of the new scheme...

We study a Riemann problem for the unsteady transonic small disturbance equations that results in a diverging rarefaction problem. The self-similar reduction leads to a boundary value problem with equations that change type (hyperbolic-elliptic) and a sonic line that is a free boundary. We summarize the principal ideas and present the main features of the problem. The flow in the hyperbolic par...

The Goursat partial differential equation arises in linear and non linear partial differential equations with mixed derivatives. This equation is a second order hyperbolic partial differential equation which occurs in various fields of study such as in engineering, physics, and applied mathematics. There are many approaches that have been suggested to approximate the solution of the Goursat par...

the aim of the present paper is the investigation of some problems which can be reduced to thegoursat problem for a third order equation. some results and theorems are given concerning the existence anduniqunce for solving the suggested problem.