A general 2 order PDE

Where is given by

is a source term

  1. Elliptic: do not vanish and have the same sign.

  2. Parabolic: One Eigen Value Vanishes.

  3. Hyperbolic: Eigen Values don’t vanish and 1 of the eigen values have a different sign.


References

  1. https://books.physics.oregonstate.edu/LinAlg/pdeclass.html