Re: NDSolve and time-delayed equations?
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- Subject: [mg46895] Re: [mg46750] NDSolve and time-delayed equations?
- From: sean kim <sean_incali at yahoo.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 03:24:14 -0500 (EST)
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the equation you posted is solvable in Mathematica 5.0 and i'm
not sure if it's delay equation. like...
Plot[Evaluate[
n[t] /. NDSolve[{n'[t] == 0.5*n[t]*(1 - n[t]/100),
n[0] == 10},
n, {t, 0, 20}] ], {t, 0, 10}]
the one with [t, t-lag] is a delay equation though.
what kind of problem results in an equation as the
first? would you mind explain it?
sean
--- Gareth Russell <gjr2008 at columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can NDSolve be used to approximate the dynamics of
> continuous but
> time-delayed equations? Here is an example of the
> standard continuous
> logistic model used in ecology:
>
> NDSolve[{n'[t] == 0.5*n[t]*(1 - n[t]/100), n[0] ==
> 10}, n, {t, 0, 20}]
>
> It does, of course, have an analytical solution.
>
> A time-delayed version would make the derivative a
> function of two
> values: n'[t,t-lag], but I can't figure out if a
> formulation like this
> is possible. The key thing seems to be that while
> the derivative of n
> is a simple function of two parameters, n itself is
> not.
>
> Any suggestions, other than iterating as a
> discrete-time model with
> very small time-steps?
>
> Gareth Russell
> Columbia University
>
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