Re: NDSolve and time-delayed equations?
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- Subject: [mg46892] Re: NDSolve and time-delayed equations?
- From: sean_incali at yahoo.com (sean kim)
- Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 23:40:16 -0500 (EST)
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hi.
can you maybe suggest a way to use this package? what are the commands
in this package? i can't seem to get it to work.
maybe some of you can provide some examples using this and other delay
equation packages that's out there. i know paul abbot has written
also....
what is the difference between the two?
thanks in advance for any inputs.
sean
"Curt Fischer" <crf3 at po.cwru.edu> wrote in message news:<c2endi$spa$1 at smc.vnet.net>...
> Gareth Russell wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Can NDSolve be used to approximate the dynamics of continuous but
> > time-delayed equations? Here is an example of the standard continuous
> > logistic model used in ecology:
> >
> > NDSolve[{n'[t] == 0.5*n[t]*(1 - n[t]/100), n[0] == 10}, n, {t, 0, 20}]
> >
> > It does, of course, have an analytical solution.
> >
> > A time-delayed version would make the derivative a function of two
> > values: n'[t,t-lag], but I can't figure out if a formulation like this
> > is possible. The key thing seems to be that while the derivative of n
> > is a simple function of two parameters, n itself is not.
> >
> > Any suggestions, other than iterating as a discrete-time model with
> > very small time-steps?
>
> Check out the NDelayDSolve package by Allan Hayes.
>
> http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/MathSource/725/
>
> I've used it to solve delay equations.