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Re: field line with NDSolve

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• Subject: [mg58045] Re: field line with NDSolve
• From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
• Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 05:18:42 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Uni Leipzig
• References: <d8rl77$jnl$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

you will never get a result as long ais you use variables
with underscores in it, an underscore is a short form for
Pattern[] and and "eqn_bnd" is Pattern[eqn,bnd] and not a
symbol.

Regards
  Jens

<topolog at gazeta.pl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:d8rl77$jnl$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi everybody!
>
> I am trying to obtain a magnetic field line in 
> 3d, i.e. z(x{y),y).
> So I have magnetic induction vector B = (Bx, By, 
> Bz), where
> Bi=Bi(x,y,z), i={x,y,z}. By the definition I set 
> an unit vector in
> direction y: b = B / Abs[By] = (bx, by, bz) and 
> replace coordinates
> x and z with functions x[y], z[y]. The final 
> step is to integrate
> the set of 2 equations:
> x'[y] = bx
> z'[y] = bz
>
> In version 4.0 of Mathematica I was able to 
> solve that with the code
> below, but in 5.1 I am not anymore. I suppose 
> the conflict exists in
> passing arguments as symbolic, since B depends 
> on z through
> InterpolatingFunction(s) and after replacing 
> z -> z[y], I got
> InterpolatingFunction[{{0., 1000.}}, <>][z[y]]. 
> But I am not sure
> how to manage this ...
>
> B = {Bx, By, Bz};
> b = B/Abs[By] /. {x -> x[y], z -> z[y]};
> r = {x[y], z[y]};
> eqn_b = {D[r[[1]], y] == b[[1]], D[r[[2]], y] == 
> b[[3]]}
>
> bnd_con = {x[ymin] == xmax/2, z[ymin] == 
> zmax/10};
> eqn_bnd = Join[eqn_b, bnd_con];
> B_line = NDSolve[eqn_bnd, r, {y, ymin, ymax}];
>
> The error I get is:
>
> NDSSolve::nlnum : The function value {...a large 
> expression...} is
> not a list of numbers with dimmensions {2} at 
> y={...a value...}
>
> Any hints, please.
>
> Ragards
> Rafal Kosinski
>
>
>
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