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Re: Re: bvdae error when using NDSolve for initial value

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  • Subject: [mg102148] Re: [mg102112] Re: bvdae error when using NDSolve for initial value
  • From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:35:56 -0400 (EDT)
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Too bad it didn't work, then.

Bobby

On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:57:22 -0500, Alois Steindl  
<Alois.Steindl at tuwien.ac.at> wrote:

> DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com> writes:
>
>> The error message is complaining, I think, about the equation
>>
>> w[u]==w1[u]+w2[u]
>>
>> Also, the equation
>>
>> T'[u] == 0
>>
>> makes T a constant.
>>
>> Hence, solving for T and w with NDSolve makes no sense.
>>
> Hello,
> that's a standard trick to take care of unknown time intervals in
> solving BVPs. (There are many cases, where the interval length is part
> of the problem, consider e.g. periodic solutions of autonomous ODEs.)
>
> Alois
>



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