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Re: SparseArray

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  • Subject: [mg92322] Re: SparseArray
  • From: "Steve Luttrell" <steve at _removemefirst_luttrell.org.uk>
  • Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <gbl365$m5v$1@smc.vnet.net>

Have a look at the documentation for Band.

Here is an example of what you need to do:

n = 10;
{diagbelow, diag, diagabove} = RandomReal[{-1, 1}, {3, n}];
a = SparseArray[{Band[{1, 1}] -> diag,
    Band[{1, 2}] -> Most[diagabove],
    Band[{2, 1}] -> Most[diagbelow]}, {n, n}];
ArrayPlot[a]

-- 
Stephen Luttrell
West Malvern, UK

"Uli Wuerfel" <uli.wuerfel at fmf.uni-freiburg.de> wrote in message 
news:gbl365$m5v$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello,
>
> I want to create a SparseArray with the elements being zero except for the 
> diagonal elements and their direct neighbours. For those, I would like to 
> assign them a value from another list, depending on the index i.
>
> The code is like this:
>
> anz=150;
> kg=10^-3;
> dx=10^-5;
> delx={};
> For[i=1,i<=anz,
> delx=Append[delx,{i,dx}];
> i++];
>
> matr=SparseArray[{1,1}->-2*kg*delx[[1]][[2]],{i_,i_}/;1<i<anz->-2*kg*(delx[[i]][[2]]+delx[[i-1]][[2]]),{1,2}->kg*delx[[1][[2]],{i_,j_}/;i-j==1&&i>1->kg*delx[[i]][[2]],{i_,j_}/;j-i==1->kg*delx[[i-1]][[2]],{anz,anz}->-kg*(delx[[anz]][[2]]+delx[[anz-1][[2]])},{anz,anz}];
>
> Here delx is a very simple list, but later I would like to do the same 
> with a list with varying elements.
> The reason is that I would like to have a non-constant
> grid spacing in order to solve a differential equation with the 
> SparseArray and using LinearSolve.
> This works well as long as I assign constants to the SparseArray-item. If 
> I try to assign values from a list to the SparseArray-item, it does not 
> work.
>
> Can you help?
>
> Regards,
> Uli
> 



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