Energy integral

A quantity representing the sum of the kinetic and the potential energy of a mechanical system at a certain moment in time.

Suppose, for example, that in a bounded domain with piecewise-smooth boundary for a hyperbolic partial differential equation

(1)

where

one poses the mixed problem

(2)

(3)

A classical solution of (2)–(3) is a function of class satisfying (1) in the cylinder , the initial conditions (2) on the lower base, and the boundary condition (3) on the lateral surface of the cylinder.

Then the relation

(4)

holds, where

The energy integral is defined as the quantity

For equality (4) takes the form

The physical meaning of the energy integral consists in the fact that the total energy of an oscillating system in the absence of external perturbations does not change in time (the law of conservation of energy).

References

[1]	V.S. Vladimirov, "Equations of mathematical physics" , MIR (1984) (Translated from Russian)

References

[a1]	O.A. Ladyzhenskaya, N.N. Ural'tseva, "Equations aux dérivées partielles de type elliptique" , Dunod (1969) (Translated from Russian)
[a2]	O.A. Ladyzhenskaya, V.A. Solonnikov, N.N. Ural'tseva, "Linear and quasi-linear equations of parabolic type" , Amer. Math. Soc. (1968) (Translated from Russian)
[a3]	L. Bers, F. John, M. Schechter, "Partial differential equations" , Interscience (1966)
[a4]	F. John, "Partial differential equations" , Springer (1978)
[a5]	P.R. Garabedian, "Partial differential equations" , Wiley (1967)