Beginning MATLAB and Simulink: From Beginner to Pro

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S. EshkabilovBeginning MATLAB and Simulinkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8748-4_8

8. Ordinary Differential Equations

Sulaymon Eshkabilov¹  

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Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA

 

Many modeling problems with engineering applications can be formulated using ordinary differential equations (ODEs). There are a few different definitions of differential equations. One of the simplest is “A differential equation is any equation which contains derivatives, either ordinary derivatives or partial derivatives,” as given in source [1]. From this definition, we can derive two types of differential equations: ...