It has been shown by Hadamard that one of the fundamental problems of mathematical physics, the analysis of the behavior of oscillating string is an ill-posed problem when the boundary-value conditions are imposed on the entire boudary of the domain. As noted by A. V. Bitsadze and A. M. Nakhushev, the Dirichlet problem is ill-posed not only for the wave equation but for hyperbolic PDEs in general.
