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Re: Beginner--Help on using FindRoot to solve the system of equations

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  • Subject: [mg66221] Re: Beginner--Help on using FindRoot to solve the system of equations
  • From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
  • Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 05:21:12 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,

a) FindRoot[] needs the start values as
    FindRoot[eqns,{{var1,startVar1},{var2,startVar2},..}]
    and not as you type
b) what is Dr ? you have not set it and you don't ask FindRoot[]
    to search for it.

Regards
   Jens

xiaochu at che.utexas.edu wrote:
> This is a code to solve vapor-liquid equilibrium by van der Waals Equation of State.
> 
> I don't why this code is not working, please help, thanks very much!
> 
> 
> (* Name of EOS *)
> 
> EOSName = "Van der Waals";
> 
> Ttilde = .;
> 
> Dtilde = .;
> 
> Z = 3/(3-Dtilde)-9*Dtilde/8/Ttilde;
> 
> (* Related variables *)
> 
> Psi1 = (-9*Dtilde)/(8*Ttilde) - Log[3-Dtilde];
> 
> lnB = (1-Z)-Psi1;
> 
> mu = -lnB+Log[Dtilde];
> 
> P = Dr Ttilde Z;
> 
> DtildeG=10^-14;
> 
> DtildeL=2.91;
> 
> Dtilde1=.;
> 
> Dtilde2=.;
> 
> mu1=mu/.Dtilde->Dtilde1;
> 
> mu2=mu/.Dtilde->Dtilde2;
> 
> P1=P/.Dtilde->Dtilde1;
> 
> P2=P/.Dtilde->Dtilde2;
> 
> Ttilde = 0.1;
> 
> Result=
>     	FindRoot[
>       		{P1==P2,mu1==mu2},
>       		{Dtilde1,DtildeG},
>       		{Dtilde2,DtildeL},
>       		MaxIterations->1000,
>       		WorkingPrecision->16];
> 
> Link to the forum page for this post:
> http://www.mathematica-users.org/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageName=Special:Forum_ViewTopic&pid=10101#p10101
> Posted through http://www.mathematica-users.org [[postId=10101]]
> 
> 


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