Re: how make function of solution by NDSolve depending on parameter?
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- Subject: [mg75150] Re: how make function of solution by NDSolve depending on parameter?
- From: jesse.woodroffe at gmail.com
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:09:33 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Murray,
One approach would be to replace y[t] with y[t,k] and then minimize
the resulting function w.r.t. k. So for your toy problem, one might
try something like this:
myFunction[t_,k_]=y[t,k]/.NDSolve[{D[y[t,k],t]==(k*y[t,k]+Exp[-t])/
(1+y[t,k]),y[t,k],{t,0,1},{k,0,1}][[1]];
NMinimize[{myFunction[0.5,k],0<=k<=1},k]
Hope that's on the right track.
Jesse Woodroffe
On Apr 16, 7:33 pm, Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> I have an initial-value problem that depends upon a parameter k. I want
> to feed the result from NDSolve for it into a function of k and then
> operate upon that function, say to find a minimum with respect to k.
>
> As a toy example:
>
> soln[k_]:=NDSolve[{y'[t] ==(k y[t]+Exp[-t])/(1+y[t]),
> y[0]==1},y[t],{t,0,1}]
>
> I want to do something like this:
>
> NMinimize[Evaluate[y[t] /. soln[k]] /. t -> 0.5, {k, 0.1, 1}]
>
> That generates errors about non-numerical values. Yet I can get a
> result from, for example:
>
> Table[Evaluate[y[t] /. soln[k]] /. t -> 0.5, {k, 0, 1}]
>
> So how can I create the function of k I want to feed into NMinimize? I
> presume the issue is when NDSolve gets called, but I'm not sure how to
> resolve this issue.
>
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