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  • Subject: [mg42889] Re: [mg42875] re:mathematica help
  • From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:25:58 -0400 (EDT)
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1. Learn how the algorithm works.
2. Learn something about Mathematica.
3. Combine 1 and 2.

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Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 01:47  AM, ikhlaq chohan wrote:

>  i need the help in programming of mathematica
> the ascii text is given here:
> "solve the heat equationusing explicit difference approximation with 
> the help of programming in mathematica"
> is a function of space cordinate "x" and time cordinate "t", ie
>  u= u(x,t)
>
> with the given boundary conditions
> u(0, t) =u(1, t)= 0 for "t" lies in the closed interval from 0 to 1
> and the initial condition u(x,0)=x, when"x"lies in the closed interval 
> from 0 to 0.5
> u(x,0)=1-x when "x"lies in the closed interval from 0.5 to 1
> The explicit difference scheme is given as
>
> [u(x,t+delta t)-u(x,t)]/(delta t) =[u(x+delta x,t)-2u(x,t)+u(x-delta 
> x,t)]/(delta x )^2
> with a condition
>  (delta t) / (delta x )^2 should be less than and equal to 0.5
> waiting for your reply
> Ikhlaq chohan
>
>


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