I have spoken with my professor and we plan to work on this issue over the 
summer.

On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 10:05:29 PM UTC-4, Karl Deutscher wrote:
>
> I have approached a professor at my university that specializes in PDEs 
> and he is interested in discussing this topic with me. I will post again 
> after he and I have spoken.
>
> On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 9:30:27 PM UTC-6, Aaron Meurer wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 10:43 PM, Karl Deutscher 
>> <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> > Hi to all who read this, 
>> > 
>> > I know that the topic of second order PDE solvers has already been 
>> discussed 
>> > in this forum but I thought that I would raise it again because I 
>> didn't see 
>> > anything showing it had been resolved. I am currently taking a degree 
>> in 
>> > mathematics with a minor in computer science and am enrolled in an 
>> > introductory PDE course this term. I noticed that the pde solver as it 
>> > currently stands only solves first order linear PDEs. I am wondering if 
>> it 
>> > would be of help if I tried to implement a solver for second order 
>> linear 
>> > PDEs that are of hyperbolic, elliptic and parabolic classifications. As 
>> a 
>> > result the classify_pde would also be updated to classify a second 
>> order 
>> > linear PDE. If this is successful I could also try to use the Fourier 
>> series 
>> > or other methods to solve second order linear PDEs and heat and wave 
>> > equations. The algorithms would be theoretical as that is how I am 
>> being 
>> > taught PDEs so as a result the solutions would not be numerical unless 
>> I run 
>> > into  issues with the theoretical side. I have not yet done any patches 
>> for 
>> > sympy and so I am unsure if that is required before I can dig into 
>> > implementing code in a module. 
>>
>> I think it would be great to be able to solve more kinds of PDEs. It 
>> would have helped when I took similar courses in college. 
>>
>> If you feel comfortable jumping right in then jump right in. If you 
>> are unsure, you can start with an easier issue. There are no 
>> requirements that you do one thing before you do another thing with 
>> respect to contributing.  There are generic guidelines for 
>> contributing (see 
>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Introduction-to-contributing and 
>> https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/Development-workflow), for 
>> example, all new code needs to have tests. But if you miss anything 
>> we'll let you know when you submit a pull request. 
>>
>> Aaron Meurer 
>>
>> > 
>> > From, 
>> > 
>> > Karl Deutscher 
>> > 
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