Re: NDSolve and NumericQ
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- Subject: [mg116335] Re: NDSolve and NumericQ
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 04:16:05 -0500 (EST)
Here's a start:
aa[y_, s_] = Sin[y[s]] + y'[s]/s;
Off[Solve::ifun]
DSolve[{aa[y, s] == 0, y[0] == 1}, y, s]
{{y -> Function[{s}, 2 ArcCot[E^(s^2/2) Cot[1/2]]]}}
Bobby
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 04:24:34 -0600, Simon Pearce
<Simon.Pearce at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Mathgroup,
>
> I have a differential equation in terms of y[S] which contains several
> complicated piecewise functions inside the ODE. I currently then use
> NDSolve in order to find a solution for y. This works, but takes about
> 10 seconds to solve.
> I'd like to speed this up, and I'm wondering if NDSolve is trying to
> differentiate the piecewise function explicitly, as has been mentioned
> before in the group
> (http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2008/Sep/msg00458.html).
> The solution given there is to use ?NumericQ to prevent evaluation
> without supplying the value, common enough (and an entirely separate
> issue on the group - can't we have an option in FindRoot and related
> functions so we can turn this off?). But I'm having trouble in doing
> this and using NDSolve, the method I'm trying to use currently .
>
> So a test problem:
>
> AA[y_, S_?NumericQ] := Sin[y[S]] + y'[S]/S
> NDSolve[{AA[y, S] == 0, y[0] == 1}, y, {S, 0, 1}]
>
> Giving the error "NDSolve::dvnoarg: The function y appears with no
> arguments", as it tries to evaluate for a general S. It works if I take
> the ?NumericQ out of the definition, but that isn't what I'm trying to
> do.
>
> As an example of a function which doesn't work if we take the ?NumericQ
> out of the definition:
>
> BB[y_, S_?NumericQ] := Sin[y[S]] + y'[S]/S + NIntegrate[(Sqrt[t] +
> Sin[t]), {t, 0, S}]
> NDSolve[{BB[y, S] == 0, y[0] == 1},y, {S, 0, 1}]
> Same error again.
>
> CC[y_, S_] := Sin[y[S]] + y'[S]/S + NIntegrate[(Sqrt[t] + Sin[t]), {t,
> 0, S}]
> NDSolve[{CC[y, S] == 0, y[0] == 1},y, {S, 0, 1}]
> This gives errors on the NIntegrate which suggest to me that NDSolve is
> doing something to the equation before putting values in for S. The
> result is correct, but isn't immediate.
>
> Anyone have any idea how to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Simon Pearce
> University of Nottingham
>
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