animating a PDE
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg5503] animating a PDE
- From: Homer Simpson of the Borg <psalzman at landau.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 19:26:06 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
hello folks
i am writing a C program to solve a partial differential equation and
would like to use MMA to animate my results.
it's an initial-value/time evolution problem, and i would like to graph
the system as it evolves in time. the program uses the crank-nicholson
algorithm. my first thought was to save the solution at every 50 or so
time steps in a bunch of files and then graph the collection of files as
a poor man's animation after my program has finished.
here is my question: it would be *infinitely* more desirable to pass an
array of values to mathematica while the C program is running, so i can
get graphs the moment the program spits the data out.
is there a way to call MMA from a C program and have it graph an array of
values passed to it in the form of an array?
i know this is asking for alot, so i won't be too disappointed if it
can't be done, but if it can, i would be incredibly overjoyed.
thanks.
peter
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You can sum some of the series some of the time,
But you can't sum all of the series all of the time.
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