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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">journal-of-interdisciplinary-mathematics</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Interdisciplinary Mathematics</journal-title>
      </journal-title-group>
      <issn publication-format="electronic">2169-012X</issn>
      <issn publication-format="print">0972-0502</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Taru Publications</publisher-name>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.47974/JIM-2303</article-id>
      <title-group>
        <article-title>An approximate solution for PDEs of third order under mixed and nonlocal boundary conditions</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>Al-Shatrah</surname>
            <given-names>Mohammed A. J.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>General Directorate of Education Thi Qar, Ministry of Education, Thi Qar, Iraq</aff>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Hussein</surname>
            <given-names>M. S.</given-names>
          </name>
          <aff>Department of Mathematics, College of Science, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq</aff>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>29</volume>
      <issue>5-A</issue>
      <fpage>1211</fpage>
      <lpage>1218</lpage>
      <pub-date date-type="pub">
        <day>27</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2026</year>
      </pub-date>
      <abstract>
        <p>This work aims to find a solution to the problem under investigation and to study non-local boundary-value problems for rectangular domains and two-dimensional third-order partial differential equations (PDEs). A finite-difference method combined with the trapezoidal rule is used to solve problems. The numerical results were determined to be steady and accurate.</p>
      </abstract>
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        <kwd>Finite difference method (FDM)</kwd>
        <kwd>Third-order PDE</kwd>
        <kwd>Nonlocal boundary conditions</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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          <meta-name>retracted</meta-name>
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