Re: Re: Solving differential equations in the
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- Subject: [mg103805] Re: [mg103772] Re: [mg103768] Solving differential equations in the
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 07:01:30 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200910051139.HAA28779@smc.vnet.net>
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No need to settle for NDSolve, when you can get the symbolic solution as
follows:
Clear[x, y, y1, s]
Off[Solve::"ifun"]
Solve the transformed ODE (thanks to Dan Dubin):
x[s_] = 2 + Exp[-I s];
y1[s_] = y[s] /.
First@DSolve[{y'[s]/x'[s] == Exp[y[s]], y[Pi] == 1}, y, s]
-Log[-((-1 + E)/E) - E^(-I s)]
(y1 is y as a function of s, not x.)
Now invert the x function:
s[z_] = s /. First@Solve[x[s] == z, s]
I Log[-2 + z]
Define y as a function of x:
y[x_] = y1[s[x]] // Simplify
1 - Log[1 + E - E x]
Check the initial conditions:
y'[x] - Exp[y[x]]
0
y[1]
1
Bobby
On Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:16:34 -0500, Dan Dubin <ddubin at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> Hi !
>> How can I solve an ordinary differential equation of order n in the
>> complex plane following a prescribed contour ?
>> I can of course write my own Runge-Kutta package but is there a quickest
>> way to do that (maybe NDSolve but how to define the contour ??) ?
>>
>> Example : NDSolve[{y'[x] == Exp[y[x]], y[1] == 1}, y, {x, 1, 3}]
>> fails because of a singularity in x=1+1/e.
>> However integrating the ODE following a path which avoids the
>> singularity should be possible eventually leading to a multivalued
>> function.
>>
>> Thanks for a hint.
>
>
> Let x[s] be a complex path parametrized by a real variable s, for
> instance
>
> x[s_] = 2 + Exp[-I s];
>
> Then Re[x] runs from 1 to 3 as s runs from Pi to 0. This is the range
> of x you wanted. You can choose other paths if this one is not
> convenient.
>
> Now transform the ODE in x to an ODE in s using the chain rule, and
> solve this ODE in s:
>
> NDSolve[{y'[s]/x'[s]==Exp[y[s]],y[Pi]==1},y,{s,0,Pi}]
>
> yields the function y[s] along the chosen contour.
>
--
DrMajorBob at yahoo.com
- References:
- Solving differential equations in the complex plane
- From: Andre Hautot <ahautot@ulg.ac.be>
- Solving differential equations in the complex plane