The characteristic of a quasilinear PDE

52 Views Asked by At

I have the equation $$(y^2-u^2)u_x -xyu_y = xu$$ with the initial condition $u(x, x) = x$. I managed to write down the characteristic $$\frac{dx}{y^2-u^2} = \frac{dy}{-xy} = \frac{du}{xu}.$$ After some manipulations on the equation $$\frac{dy}{-xy} = \frac{du}{xu},$$ I got $$yu = c_1$$ for some constant $c_1$.

However, I couldn't manage to derive anything about $c_2$, the other constant which will show up in the solution.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

1

There are 1 best solutions below

1
On BEST ANSWER

Hint: Can you think about multipliers?

$\frac{xdx+y{dy}}{xy^2-xu^2-xy^2} = \frac{du}{xu}$

$\implies xdx+ydy+udu=0$