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Contents
1 Weak formulation of Partial Differential Equations 6
1.1 Historical perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2 Weak solution to the Dirichlet problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2.1 Formal passage from classical solution to weak solution . . . 6
1.2.2 Formal passage from weak solution to classical solution . . . 7
1.2.3 About the boundary conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3 Weak and variational formulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.1 Functional setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3.2 Determination of the solution space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.4 Abstract problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.5 Well-posedness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6 Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10