Re: Question: numerical solution of nonlinear differential equation
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- Subject: [mg26403] Re: [mg26390] Question: numerical solution of nonlinear differential equation
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:21:29 -0500 (EST)
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Ronald,
I tried out your problem and it seems to work for some random values of the
constants.
In[8]:=
NDSolve[{2 y''[x] + 3 y'[x] + 4 Exp[-5 x]==0, y'[0]==0, y'[1]==0},y,{x,0,1}]
produces an error message about RowReduce, but it also produces an answer. A
problem with the input in your post is that you had y[x]' instead of y'[x].
Also, it is not wise to use capital letters as arbitrary constants, as many
of them have a special meaning in Mathematica. For example, D is the
differentiation function, and E=2.7818... is the exponential constant e.
You should also realize that Mathematica's NDSolve can only solve a single
linear boundary value ODE.
Carl Woll
Physics Dept
U of Washington
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ronald Sastrawan" <sastra at fmf.uni-freiburg.de>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg26403] [mg26390] Question: numerical solution of nonlinear differential
equation
>
> Hello !
>
> I encountered a problem, trying to numerically solve a differential
> equation.
> My equation looks like:
>
> A y''[x] - B y[x]' + C Exp[-Dx] == 0
> with boundary conditions: y'[0]==0 , y'[E]==0
>
> All constants A to E are known.
>
> Mathematica complains, that the equation is not linear. But in the
> online documentation I saw many examples of nonlinear differential
> equations, which all work fine. What is the difference between the
> examples and my equation ? And is there a possibility to NDSolve my
> equation ?
>
> Any hint on this would be of great help to me.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Ronald
>
> --
> Ronald Sastrawan
>
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>
>
>
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- From: Ronald Sastrawan <sastra@fmf.uni-freiburg.de>
- Question: numerical solution of nonlinear differential equation