Diff. Equ
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- Subject: [mg43692] Diff. Equ
- From: Prechtl Josef <e9426270 at stud4.tuwien.ac.at>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 16:42:41 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello, I'm trying to solve a set of ordinary diff. equations (the independant parameter is s), for which certain boundary conditions have to be fulfilled: one boundary condition at s=0, the second one at an unknown s1. I am trying to solve this equation with a 'shooting' method, trying to vary one parameter (in my case it is tetastrich) in the system of diff. equation, and have a look if the boundary equations are fulfilled at the second boundary. This is implemented in Solution[] via FindRoot. SolutionFind[..,tetastrich] should solve the diff. equation for a given tetastrich (basically it uses NDSolve[]). Obviously, in order to do that, this routine needs to be evaluated already with a certain numerical value of tetastrich; however, in my case this seems not to be the case, since I always get the error message: NDSolve::"ndinn": "Initial condition \!\(1.`\\ tetastrich\) is not a number." WHY?????????? Thanx for any useful comment in advance!! j.h. Solution[druck_, v_] := FindRoot[Evaluate[SolutionFind[druck, v, tetastrich]], {tetastrich, 0}] SolutionFind[druck_, v_, tetastrich_] := With[{min = FindMinimum[ Evaluate[-Teta[s, druck, v, tetastrich]], {s, 0, 0, 2\[Pi]}][[2]]}, {R[s, druck, v, tetastrich] == 0 /. min, Teta[s, druck, v, tetastrich] == \[Pi] /. min}]