Differential Equation Solutions with MATLAB®
by Dingyü Xue, Tsinghua University Tsinghua University Press
3 Initial value problems
Analytical solution methods were studied in Chapter 2. It was indicated that there are many differential equations, especially nonlinear, where analytical solutions are not available. Numerical methods should be employed to study these differential equations. From this chapter on, numerical solutions for various differential equations are presented.
In Section 3.1, the mathematical model of a first-order explicit differential equation and its initial value problem is presented. In Section 3.2, fixed-step Runge–Kutta methods and multistep algorithms are introduced, with low-level MATLAB implementations. Examples are used to assess the accuracy of the algorithms, through comparative studies.
In real applications, fixed-step ...
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