Re: Numerical solution of coupled nonlinear PDEs
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- Subject: [mg112124] Re: Numerical solution of coupled nonlinear PDEs
- From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:18:17 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010, Dominic wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> For the functions a(t,y), b(t,y), and x(t,y),I have the PDE system:
>
> a'=a''+a x''+x'a'
>
> b'=b''-bx''-x'b'
>
> x''=b-a
>
> Sorry I can't show the system more clearly here but on the left side the
> partial is respect to t for a and b and it's with respect to y for the
> x(t,y), and on the right, all partials are with respect to y,
>
> and I'd like to obtain a numerical solution for any simple IBVP using
> NDSolve, for example in the domain 0<t<1 and 0<y<1 with all initial
> conditions set to y This is the code I'm using:
>
> mysol = NDSolve[{D[a[t, y], t] ==
> D[a[t, y], {y, 2}] + a[t, y] D[x[t, y], {y, 2}] +
> D[x[t, y], y] D[a[t, y], y]
> ,
> D[b[t, y], t] ==
> D[b[t, y], {y, 2}] - b[t, y] D[x[t, y], {y, 2}] -
> D[x[t, y], y] D[b[t, y], y]
> ,
> D[x[t, y], {y, 2}] == b[t, y] - a[t, y]
> ,
> a[0, y] == y, a[t, 0] == 0, a[t, 1] == 1,
>
> b[0, y] == y, b[t, 0] == 0, b[t, 1] == 1,
>
> x[0, y] == y, x[t, 0] == 0, x[t, 1] == 1},
>
> {a, b, x}, {t, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1}, MaxSteps -> 10000]
>
> However, I receive boundary-value errors and singular errors.
>
> Can someone help me set up this system in any way for any reasonable
> domain with any reasonable initial and bondary values to obtain a
> non-trivial solution?
>
> Thanks guys,
>
> Dominic
>
Dominic,
eqn = {
D[a[t, y], t] ==
D[a[t, y], {y, 2}] + a[t, y] D[x[t, y], {y, 2}] +
D[x[t, y], y] D[a[t, y], y],
D[b[t, y], t] ==
D[b[t, y], {y, 2}] - b[t, y] D[x[t, y], {y, 2}] -
D[x[t, y], y] D[b[t, y], y],
D[D[x[t, y], {y, 2}] == b[t, y] - a[t, y], t]}
mysol = NDSolve[{{eqn},
a[0, y] == y, a[t, 0] == 0, a[t, 1] == 1, b[0, y] == y,
b[t, 0] == 0, b[t, 1] == 1, x[t, 0] == 0, x[t, 1] == 1,
x[0, y] == y}, {a[t, y], b[t, y], x[t, y]}, {t, 0, 1}, {y, 0, 1},
Method -> {"MethodOfLines", "TemporalVariable" -> t}]
does this help? Note that the x has been differentiated with respect to t -
you need to set appropriate initial conditions.
Oliver