Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ia Paper 2 6B iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Under the moving-coordinate transformation, the forcing is . Choose a stationary solution , which requires precisely . The left spatial limit of is zero only if . Therefore one solution is the transported step forcing in an advection-diffusion equation profileIt has and , so their sum vanishes; almost everywhere , canceling the source. The first derivatives are continuous on the moving interface. For each fixed , the profile is zero far to the left and tends to minus infinity to the right, as required. The PDE holds pointwise off that interface and weakly across it, consistently with the requested continuously differentiable regularity.