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Re: Mathematica newbie question : NDSolve

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• Subject: [mg40273] Re: Mathematica newbie question : NDSolve
• From: Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au>
• Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 05:19:11 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: The University of Western Australia
• References: <b5efsh$675$1@smc.vnet.net> <b5hcc8$m0j$1@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <b5hcc8$m0j$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
 Paul Abbott <paul at physics.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> In article <b5efsh$675$1 at smc.vnet.net>,
>  sriramr at asdl.gatech.edu (Sriram Rallabhandi) wrote:
> 
> > I'm new to Mathematica. I'm using the following code to solve a
> > bi-harmomic PDE in two parameters u,v. The final output is the 3D
> > coordinate values: x[u,v],y[u,v],z[u,v]. I get the error attached even
> > though i have the boundary and initial conditions specified.
> > Can someone point me in the right direction??
> 
> Presently, NDSolve is not capable of solving such problems.

I should also mention that you could use the 

   Calculus`VariationalMethods` 

package. You need to supply a judiciously chosen trial function that 
satisfies the boundary conditions and depends on a set of variational 
parameters. 

Cheers,
Paul

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