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Re: Nestwhile

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg57226] Re: [mg57201] Nestwhile
• From: "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb at ea.com>
• Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 02:39:52 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I am not sure NestWhile is really what you need here.

I create a notebook for your function. There are a couple of typos in
the function below I think. (w rather than dw?) there are also a lot of
terms equal to 0.
You function is d[e,dw]=... it probably needs to be d[e_,de_]:=...

You can see the html version of the notebook at:
http://www.mathematica-users.org/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageName=N
otebook:functionMathgroup57201.nb

and you can download the notebook at:
http://www.mathematica-users.org/mediawiki/images/8/83/functionMathgroup
57201.nb

I suggest you upload your notebook at http://www.mathematica-users.org
and that would give us more information to help you quickly.

Cheers,
Luc

-----Original Message-----
From: Pratik Desai [mailto:pdesai1 at umbc.edu] 
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg57226] [mg57201] Nestwhile

Hi,
I am having problem with using NestWhile in a code which basically boils

down to finding values for the variables (e,dw)  for which a function 
d[e, dw] is "minimized" while one variable (e) goes up to 1. I have been

using the following approach, which unfortunately loops for 1 
iteration..There is definitely a better probably a simpler  way to do 
this...Thanks in advance for your help

Here is the attempt :

d[ e, dw] =
Abs[0. + 1143.8189785870038/((-2.0224920432639264 + 
e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) +
   (e^3*(-2.3561944901923435 - 
1.3322676295501878*^-15*w))/((-2.0224920432639264 + 
e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) -
   56.548667764616276*w - (2573.5927018207585*dw)/((-2.0224920432639264 
+ e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) +
   (e^2*(-73.38760438785755 + 
56.54866776461624*dw))/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + 
e)) +
   (e*(-407.4855111216201 + 
1158.1167158193412*dw))/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + 
e))] +
 8.*Abs[0. + 0./((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) +
    (0.*dw)/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) +
    e^2*(0./((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) + 
(0.*dw)/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*
        (22.50249204326393 + e))) + e*(0. + 0./((-2.0224920432639264 + 
e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) +
      (0.*dw)/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)))] +
 Abs[0. + (e*(-107.23302924253159 - 
7.105427357601*^-14*dw))/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 +

e)) +
   (e^3*(2.3561944901923453 - 
4.440892098500626*^-16*dw))/((-2.0224920432639264 + 
e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)) +
   e^2*(48.25486315913923/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 
+ e)) +
     (0.*dw)/((-2.0224920432639264 + e)*(22.50249204326393 + e)))]

Module[{e = 0.05, dw = 0.04}, NestWhile[{e += 0.01,dw += 0.1},
   d[ e, dw],10^-2 <d[ e,  dw] <0&&e==1 ]; Print[dw,d[ e, dw],e]; 
Return[d[j, e, dw], Module]]

0.14
25.415

-- 
Pratik Desai
Graduate Student
UMBC
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Phone: 410 455 8134