Re: FindRoot in Version 5
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- Subject: [mg46252] Re: FindRoot in Version 5
- From: adam.smith at hillsdale.edu (Adam Smith)
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:46:11 -0500 (EST)
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I don't have version 5 to test this on. But my version (4.1.0 on
Windows2000) did not seem to like the use of the "?_" in your function
definitions. When I changed it to "a_" everywhere, it worked. Have
you tried this under ver 5?
Adam Smith
bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins) wrote in message news:<c0fh4j$9ls$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Hi,
>
> In version 4 I used the following code to solve nonlinear BVP using
> NDSolve
>
> system[?_] := {y1'[x] == y2[
> x], y2'[x] == -Sin[y2[x]] + Cos[5x], y1[-1] == 0, y2[-1] == ?};
> myODEsoln[?_] := NDSolve[system[?], {y1[x], y2[x]}, {x, -1, 1}]
> yend[?_] := (y1[x] /. myODEsoln[?]) /. x -> 1
> bc = FindRoot[First[yend[?]] == 0, {?, -2, 2}];
> Plot[Evaluate[y1[x] /. myODEsoln[? /. bc]], {
> x, -1, 1}, AxesLabel -> {"x", "y1(x)"}];
>
> In Version 5 is does not work. I have read on this group that FindRoot
> was modified so that it now requires that in the above code I replace
> yend[Q_] with yend[Q_?NumericQ]. But now the problem is that FindRoot
> fails to converge.
>
> So my question: Does anyone know what other modifications have been
> made to FindRoot so that I can get this code and many others like it
> to work again?
>
> Thanks much
>
> Brian