KnowraHeat equationLinked fromLinked fromThe 43 pages that link to Heat equation, each with the reason it gives.All 43Broader topic 11Related 25Narrower topic 1Compared with 6Wave equationCompared with: It smooths disturbances over time, unlike the wave equation's traveling fronts.Laplace's equationCompared with: Its steady states reduce to Laplace's equation when internal sources are absent.Potential theoryCompared with: It describes time-dependent smoothing, unlike the static harmonic fields central here.Black–Scholes equationCompared with: A change of variables transforms the Black–Scholes equation into this diffusion equation.Ricci flowCompared with: Ricci flow resembles nonlinear heat diffusion, with curvature replacing a fixed scalar field.Flow (mathematics)Compared with: Its evolution smooths whole fields, whereas an ordinary vector-field flow transports individual points.