NDSolve/InterpolatingFunction and vectors
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- Subject: [mg53657] NDSolve/InterpolatingFunction and vectors
- From: D Herring <dherring at at.uiuc.dot.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 06:37:09 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi all, For numerous reasons (such as dot products), I would like to use NDSolve with vector-valued functions. For example, the Sine and Cosine could be defined as soln=NDSolve[{ xx'[t]\[Equal]{{0,1},{-1,0}}.xx[t],xx[0]\[Equal]{{0},{1}} },xx,{t,0,10}] Then I have the multi-valued function f[t_]=(xx/.soln[[1]])[t] such that f[Pi] is roughly {{0},{-1}} as expected. The trouble comes when trying to extract scalar values from f[t]. f[3.14][[1,1]] ~= 0 but f[t][[1,1]] throws an error. Likewise, Plot[f[t],{t,0,10}] pukes because f[t] doesn't return a scalar when evaluated. My current solution uses dot products to extract values. {1,0}.f[t] doesn't error since it holds until f is evaluated. Plot[{{1,0},{0,1}}.f[t],{t,0,10}] still bombs, but Plot[{{1,0}.f[t],{0,1}.f[t]},{t,0,10}] works fine. Can anyone suggest a better overall method for embedding dot products in NDSolve? The system I have looks something like {p'[t]=dp[p]+(p[t]-a[s[t]]).dads[s[t]], s'[t]=p'[t].dads[s[t]]/...) where a[s] is given. t and s[t] are scalar; the other variables are of dimension 4 (or more). Thanks, Daniel
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