Re: Help: boundary value problem
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- Subject: [mg21268] Re: Help: boundary value problem
- From: "Artyom Shneyerov" <a-shneyerov at nwu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 03:46:50 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US
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Marco de Innocentis <mdi11 at hotmail.com> wrote in message news:831thk$fkh at smc.vnet.net... > I need to solve a nonlinear ordinary second-order differential > equation on a closed interval, knowing the value of the solution at > the ends of the interval. Is there a way of solving this problem > using Mathematica, or does Mathematica only deal with initial value > problems? > If the latter, is there some function which performs the shooting > method, so I can transform the boundary value into an initial value > problem? > Thanks, > > Marco de Innocentis Try along these lines if an approximation is OK: func=y/.NDSolve[{y''[x] + x y[x] == 0, y[0] == 1, y[1] == -1}, y, {x, 0, 1}][[1]] func can then be used as a ususal function. Artyom Shenyerov