Weak Formulation - Example 1: Linear System of Equations

Example 1: Linear System of Equations

Now, let and a linear mapping. Then, the weak formulation of the equation

involves finding such that for all the following equation holds:

where denotes an inner product.

Since is a linear mapping, it is sufficient to test with basis vectors, and we get

Actually, expanding, we obtain the matrix form of the equation

where and .

The bilinear form associated to this weak formulation is

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