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Re: Solve problems

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  • Subject: [mg64250] Re: Solve problems
  • From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 03:53:38 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Joerg,
Calculations with approximate (Real) numbers do not give accurate 
results. Therefore, calculate the "error" of your solution and you will 
see that the errors are about 10^-15 and smaller. That is fine 
considering that you use approximate arithmetic.

Daniel

Joerg Schaber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a system of polynomial equations where Solve cannot find the
> right solutions. Any hints? By the way, actually I just want to find the
> steady states of a differential equation system. If there is another
> clever way, please let me know.
> There are also coonstraints that all variable must be >=0, but including 
> those constraints and using Reduce also does not yield a valid solution. 
> There exisits a valid solution. I checked this solving the differential 
> equation system with NDSolve and let it run into the steady state. But 
> this is not very elegant and principally the steady states can be 
> calculated directly.
> 
> eqns1={0 == 0. c1 + 0.001 c3 - 721.9 c1 c4 + 0.001 c2 c8,
> 0 == 0.001 c3 - 721.9 c1 c4 + 0.001 c5 - 346.09 c4 c6,
> 0 == 0.001 c5 - 346.09 c4 c6 - 989.77 c6 c7 + 0.001 c8,
> 0 == -989.77 c6 c7 + 0.001 c8, c1 + c2 + c3 == 5.7,
> c3 + c4 + c5 == 19.3,
> c5 + c6 + c8 == 4.,
> c7 + c8 == 1.};
> 
> sol = Solve[eqns1, {c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6, c7, c8}, VerifySolutions ->
> True];
> 
> \!\({{c2 -> 0.`, c3 ->
>          5.69999921807596`, c5 -> 3.502051416006559`, c1 -> \
> 7.819240400365867`*^-7, c7 -> 0.5020524180816763`, c8 -> 
> 0.4979475819183236`, \
> c6 -> 1.0020751177226038`*^-6, c4 -> 10.097949365917481`}, {c2 -> 0.`, 
> c3 -> \
> 5.699999640315395`,
>        c5 -> \(-8.352092810365317`\), c1 -> 3.5968460447115093`*^-7,
>           c7 -> \(-11.352093909700997`\), c8 -> 12.352093909700997`, c6 -> \
> \(-1.0993356796497231`*^-6\), c4 -> 21.95209317004992`}, {c2 -> 0.`,
>        c3 -> 8.687577015258206`, c5 -> 10.612427012862872`,
>        c1 -> \(-2.987577015258207`\), c7 -> \(-1.3272190975834564`*^-7\),
>          c8 -> 1.0000001327219097`, c6 -> \(-7.612427145584781`\),
>         c4 -> \(-4.028121078693263`*^-6\)}, {c2 -> 0.`, c3 -> \
> 19.300001049304143`,
>          c5 -> 9.165049916617935`*^-7, c1 -> \(-13.600001049304144`\), 
> c7 -> \
> \(-3.0000004306092727`\), c8 -> 4.000000430609273`,
>          c6 -> \(-1.3471142644128086`*^-6\), c4 -> \
> \(-1.965809135229149`*^-6\)}, {c2 -> 0.`,
>          c3 -> 24.324407481766347`, c5 -> \(-5.024405672582244`\), c1 -> \
> \(-18.624407481766347`\), c7 -> 1.259078407457304`*^-7, c8 -> \
> 0.9999998740921593`, c6 -> 8.024405798490085`,
>         c4 -> \(-1.8091841042296682`*^-6\)}}\)
> 
> 
> Einsetzen ergibt:
> 
> eqns1 /. sol
> 
> {{True, False, False, False, True, True, True, True}, {True, True,
>      False, False, True, True, True, True}, {True, False, False, True,
>      True, True, True, True}, {True, False, True, True, True, True,
>      True, True}, {False, False, False, True, True, True, True, True}}
> 
> 
> best wishes,
> 
> joerg
> 


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