On the solvability of a semi-periodic boundary value problem for the nonlinear Goursat equation

Abstract

In this paper, by means of a change of variables, a nonlinear semi-periodic boundary value problem for the Goursat equation is reduced to a linear gravity problem for hyperbolic equations. Reintroducing a new function, the obtained problem is reduced to a family of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations and functional relations. When solving a family of boundary value problems for ordinary differential equations, the parameterization method is used. The application of this approach made it possible to establish the coefficients of the unique solvability of the semi-periodic problem for the Goursat equation and to propose constructive algorithms for finding an approximate solution.

Keywords

• semi-periodic boundary value problem
• second order boundary value problem
• Goursat equation
• boundary value problem
• algorithm
• approximate solution