Added Feb. 9, 2019.
Problem Chapter 3, example 1 from Handbook of first order partial differential equations by Polyanin, Zaitsev, Moussiaux.
Solve for \(w(x,y)\)
\[ a x w_x + b y w_y = c \]
Mathematica ✓
ClearAll["Global`*"]; pde = a*x*D[w[x, y], x] + b*y*D[w[x, y], y] == c; sol = AbsoluteTiming[TimeConstrained[DSolve[pde, w[x, y], {x, y}], 60*10]];
\[\left \{\left \{w(x,y)\to \frac {c \log (x)}{a}+c_1\left (y x^{-\frac {b}{a}}\right )\right \}\right \}\]
Maple ✓
restart; pde := a*x*diff(w(x,y),x)+ b*y*diff(w(x,y),y) = c; cpu_time := timelimit(60*10,CodeTools[Usage](assign('sol',pdsolve(pde,w(x,y)) ),output='realtime'));
\[w \left ( x,y \right ) ={\frac {1}{a} \left ( c\ln \left ( x \right ) +{\it \_F1} \left ( y{x}^{-{\frac {b}{a}}} \right ) a \right ) }\]
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Added Feb. 9, 2019.
Problem Chapter 3, example 2 from Handbook of first order partial differential equations by Polyanin, Zaitsev, Moussiaux.
Solve for \(w(x,y)\)
\[ a e^x w_x + b w_y = c e^{2 x} y \]
Mathematica ✓
ClearAll["Global`*"]; pde = a*Exp[x]*D[w[x, y], x] + b*D[w[x, y], y] == c*Exp[2*x]*y; sol = AbsoluteTiming[TimeConstrained[DSolve[pde, w[x, y], {x, y}], 60*10]];
\[\left \{\left \{w(x,y)\to \frac {c \left (a e^x y+b (-x)+b\right )}{a^2}+c_1\left (\frac {b e^{-x}}{a}+y\right )\right \}\right \}\]
Maple ✓
restart; pde := a*exp(x)*diff(w(x,y),x)+ b*y*diff(w(x,y),y) = c*exp(2*x)*y; cpu_time := timelimit(60*10,CodeTools[Usage](assign('sol',pdsolve(pde,w(x,y)) ),output='realtime'));
\[w \left ( x,y \right ) =-{\frac {yc}{{a}^{2}}{{\rm e}^{{\frac {b{{\rm e}^{-x}}}{a}}}} \left ( b\Ei \left ( 1,{\frac {b{{\rm e}^{-x}}}{a}} \right ) -{{\rm e}^{x-{\frac {b{{\rm e}^{-x}}}{a}}}}a \right ) }+{\it \_F1} \left ( y{{\rm e}^{{\frac {b{{\rm e}^{-x}}}{a}}}} \right ) \]
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Added Feb. 9, 2019.
Problem Chapter 3, example 3 from Handbook of first order partial differential equations by Polyanin, Zaitsev, Moussiaux.
Solve for \(w(x,y)\)
\[ w_x + a w_y = b \]
Mathematica ✓
ClearAll["Global`*"]; pde = D[w[x, y], x] + a*D[w[x, y], y] == b; sol = AbsoluteTiming[TimeConstrained[DSolve[pde, w[x, y], {x, y}], 60*10]];
\[\{\{w(x,y)\to b x+c_1(y-a x)\}\}\]
Maple ✓
restart; pde := diff(w(x,y),x)+a*diff(w(x,y),y) = b; cpu_time := timelimit(60*10,CodeTools[Usage](assign('sol',pdsolve(pde,w(x,y)) ),output='realtime'));
\[w \left ( x,y \right ) =bx+{\it \_F1} \left ( -ax+y \right ) \]
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