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How to graph a series of coupled oscillators and watch the wave move along them

Here are the differential equations that set's up the 11 coupled oscillators. ...
0
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0answers
35 views

How can I solve this differential equation for some restricted domain and plot the solution for some values of the parameter

I have encountered some problems when solving this DE. I am wondering if anyone could help me point out the mistakes. The question says: Obtain and verify a symbolic solution for ...
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Phase space Plot [closed]

Using Mathematica 8 EquationTrekker is not working. Could anyone please help me to find how the phase space will look for this vector fields? ...
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2answers
138 views

Plotting geodesics of upper half plane

I want to solve (numerically) the geodesics of the upper half plane and plot. The results are quite known (i) straight lines parallel to $y$-axis and (ii) semicircles centered on the $x$-axis. Now the ...
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1answer
165 views

DAE - varying initial conditions

I want to solve a DAE-system and I want to vary more than one initial conditions and to manipulate them. I looked here: Putting NDSolve into ParametricPlot But it does not work: ...
3
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2answers
220 views

Plotting heat equation in a Manipulate expression

I have a 2D heat equation $u_t = \alpha (u_{xx} + u_{yy})$ with conditions: $u(x, y, 0) = 300$, $u_y(x, 0, t) = \mu_1(x)$, $u_y(x, 1, t) = \mu_2(x)$, $u(0, y, t) = \mu_3(y)$, $u(1, y, t) = ...
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1answer
86 views
8
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357 views

Basins of Attraction

How does one shade the basin(s) of attraction of a phase plot in Mathematica? I have been trying to do this using the system $$\begin{align*} \dot x &= y\\ \dot y &= -9\sin(x) - 0.20y ...
2
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1answer
107 views

Non linear equation phase space

As a supplementary to my question solution of differential equation I post a new question of how is it possible to make a Table that has elements the solutions of a non linear differential equation, ...
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1answer
144 views

Problems with NDSolve and stiffness

I am trying to solve an ODE in chemical kinetics: $$\begin{align*} \frac{\mathrm d[x]}{\mathrm dt} &= -k_1 [x][y]\\ \frac{\mathrm d[y]}{\mathrm dt} &= k_1 [x][y] - k_3[y] \end{align*}$$ My ...
2
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1answer
113 views

Plot differential equation system in a complex way

Based on this differential equation system: $$\begin{align*} \dot{x}&=f(x,y)\\ \dot{y}&=g(x,y) \end{align*}$$ where $$\begin{align*} f(x, y)&=x^2+y^2-25\\ g(x, y)&=x^2-y^2-7 ...
2
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1answer
116 views

ParametricPlot3D doesn't appear

Here I have one simple system solvable with NDSolve. I don't know why ParametricPlot3D doesn't present trajectory in space. I have solutions for x[t], y[t] and z[t] ...
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1answer
77 views

How can I highlight the vanishing-partials in an interactive 3D plot?

I am using Manipulate and Plot3D to plot a function with two real variables and two extra parameters. ...
2
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2answers
161 views

Solving and plotting ODEs while varying one of the initial conditions

How can I vary an initial condition in the numerical solution of a system of ODEs and then make a 3D plot of the solution space with that condition as one of the variables. ...
3
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2answers
252 views

How do I plot a solution of a differential equation?

I am having trouble generating a plot for a solution to my differential equations. I always end up with just blank axes. ...
0
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1answer
170 views

Solving the wave PDE using the Fourier method

I am trying to solve the wave PDE using the Fourier method and I need to animate the plots of the partial sum of order 45 -- U45(x,t) with initial conditions U45(x,t0), {t0, 0, 12, .2}. I am ...
3
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2answers
124 views

Evaluate an ODE for several values of a coefficient and draw all the solutions in one plot

I want to draw one plot showing all the solutions the following ODE with different values of N. How can i do it? ...
2
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2answers
221 views

Plotting several numerical solutions plus the analytic solution of ODE in one plot

I want to be able to plot several numerical solutions of an ODE plus its analytical solution in one plot in order to see how the numerical solutions converge towards the analytical one w.r.t. the ...
10
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3answers
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Plotting a Phase Portrait

I'm trying to plot a phase portrait for the differential equation $$x'' - (1 - x^2) x' + x = 0.5 \cos(1.1 t)\,.$$ The primes are derivatives with respect to $t$. I've reduced this second order ODE to ...
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3answers
525 views

How do I plot x[t] vs. x'[t] (where x[t] and x'[t] are solutions to NDSolve)?

I have a differential equation which I solved using NDSolve. I can easily plot x[t] vs. t, x'[t] vs. t, but.... how do I plot x[t] vs. x'[t]? I tried using the Evaluate function to simplify things, ...
1
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1answer
231 views

How to plot population growth model?

How would I draw the graph of a function dy/dt=((Ry^2)/T)-Ry in Mathematica? I have tried a few times but the constants are confusing me.
2
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1answer
211 views

Vector Analysis: Why are the Grad, Laplacian and Div being evaluated to zero

For the non linear partial differential equation below, why are the Gradient, Laplacian and Divergence being evaluated to zero despite using the VectorAnalysis ...
2
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1answer
120 views

Using MaxStepFraction as ticks on plot

Is there any way I could use the MaxStepFraction (or grid size) as used in NDSolve in the example below as ticks on the 3d Plot? ...
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215 views

Replacing variable in an equation with an Interpolating function polynomial and plotting residual

I was trying to plot the residual for the solution of my PDE. However, I was unsure about a couple of things. I imported the data and created an Interpolation polynomial with ...
2
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2answers
346 views

Manipulate a Differential Equation result

I want to Manipulate the result of Differential Equation like : ...
2
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2answers
321 views

Interpreting the interpolating function and saving data to plot with external program

So far I have been solving non-linear pdes with NDSolve and then plotting the result with the in-built Plot3D and ...
5
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2answers
441 views
2
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2answers
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Animation of Differential Equations from NDSolve with ParametricPlot3D and Evaluate

I have a system of differential equations (referred to as "s") and use NDSolve to obtain the solution. I substitute the interpolated functions for the original ...
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4answers
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How can I plot the direction field for a differential equation?

I'd like to plot the graph of the direction field for a differential equation, to get a feel for it. I'm a novice, right now, when it comes to plotting in Mathematica, so I'm hoping that someone can ...
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0answers
254 views

Unexpected result from contour plot - where is the color gradient?

When I plot a contour plot of my (in)famous code :P I get some unexpected results that I don't quite understand. My code (the one that has ...
2
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1answer
209 views

Laplacian or Grad of an InterpolatingFunction

For obtaining a Schlieren image from an equation for density, I need to calculate the first derivative of density and make a contour plot. The below code snippet calculates the first derivative w.r.t ...
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Plotting with NDSolve`StateData`

This question is a continuation of this. As answered by J.M., I am able to iterate a solution. However, I am unable to plot it. I am sure that this has to do with my inability to understand how the ...
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2answers
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Creating Plots for a Family of Solutions

I am wondering how do you set the parameters appropriately for $a_n,\,\alpha,\,\text{and }b_n$ to plot the family of solution of: $u_n(r,t) = [a_n\cos(k_n\alpha t)+b_n\sin(k_n\alpha t)]J_0(k_nr)$ ...