Paper 2, Section II, C

Further Complex Methods
Part II, 2009

Consider the initial-boundary value problem

ut=2ux2,0<x<,t>0u(x,0)=xex,0x<u(0,t)=sint,t0\begin{gathered} \frac{\partial u}{\partial t}=\frac{\partial^{2} u}{\partial x^{2}}, \quad 0<x<\infty, \quad t>0 \\ u(x, 0)=x e^{-x}, \quad 0 \leqslant x<\infty \\ u(0, t)=\sin t, \quad t \geqslant 0 \end{gathered}

where uu vanishes sufficiently fast for all tt as xx \rightarrow \infty.

(i) Express the solution as an integral (which you should not evaluate) in the complex kk-plane

(ii) Explain how to use appropriate contour deformation so that the relevant integrand decays exponentially as k|k| \rightarrow \infty.