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Question: Evaluating with D

Question:Evaluating with D

Rouben Rostamian 7711 Maple
derivative eval diff
May 19 2015
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I wish to evaluate the expression

knowing that

where a is a constant.  It is not hard to see, assuming enough differentiability,  that the expression evaluates to

I know how to do this when all the derivatives are expressed in terms of the diff() operator.  Here it is:

eq := diff(u(x,t),t) = a^2*diff(u(x,t),x,x);
expr := diff(u(x,t),t,t);
eval['recurse'](expr,[eq]);

However, I would prefer to do the computations when all derivatives are expressed in terms of the D operator but cannot get that to work.  What is the trick?
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