Questions on the symbolic (DSolve, DifferentialRoot) and numerical (NDSolve) solutions of differential equations in Mathematica.

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Using Manipulate Feature for Two ODE's

So I have not been able to find any examples of the Manipulate feature for two ODE's. I would like to plot a graph of x[t] vs. y[t] and manipulate the initial conditions, v and theta. Thank you very ...
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How can I understand the result Mathematica returns from DSolve?

I have solved an ODE using DSolve, but I have a problem with understanding the solution. In general the solution is in the form: ...
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Recursion depth exceeded

Below is my code for numerical solving of PDE with Crank Nicolson scheme. ...
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NDSolve complains about missing derivatives of dependent variables in Mathematica 9

In Mathematica 8 NDSolve[{x[t] == 1, x[0] == 1}, x[t], {t, 0, 10}] solves fine and returns ...
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Indexing of Large System of Equations for Use in NDSolve

I currently have a list of ~150 DAE's (differential-algebraic equations) and I need to be able to work with using NDSolve. Fortunately I already have them ...
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Strange Behavior of NDSolve

I am trying to evaluate the following ODE numerically: ...
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Solving an ODE in power series

How do I find a series solution to an ODE? I do not mean taking the Taylor series of an exact solution; I want to solve nasty nonlinear differential equations locally via plug and chug. Surely, that ...
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Can DSolve solve systems with unspecified function coefficients?

I am an economic research student with no previous experience with Mathematica, so please pardon me if my questions sounds really stupid. I am hoping to solve a system of nonlinear ODEs symbolically. ...
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What is wrong with this PDE?

I'm trying to get a numerical solution to the wave equation but Mathematica keeps on giving me an error and I cannot see what the problem is. This is the code I have: ...
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Performance in parameter estimation from ParametricNDSolve using varied initial conditions

I have 250 data points from a timecourse exeriment in a list, with columns specifying (1) time, (2-4) initial conditions, (5) absorbance reading. I want to fit 4 parameters (k1, k2, k3, k4) in a DAE ...
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Strange Error in NDSolve [closed]

I am trying to numerically solve a long list of ordinary differential equations using NDSolve as follows: ...
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NDSolve with vector function

(Possible duplicate yet I still can't understand.) Basic 2D revolving around origin: ...
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Using NDSolve for Integro-Differential Equations

I have a fairly complicated set of coupled non-linear integro-differential equations that I am trying to solve using NDSolve. The equations are: ...
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How to deal with zero in NDSolve in mathematica?

I would like to solve the following ODEs $$\begin{cases} x'(t)&=y\\ y'(t)&=-y(t)/t-e^{x(t)},\\ x(0)&=1,\\y(0)&=0, \end{cases}$$ (EDIT : The second equation used to be $y'(t) = ...
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White noise $\eta(t)$

How to make a random function $\eta(t)$ to insert in a differential equation for NDSolve? Edit: example: to solve equations like $\frac{dx}{dt}=\eta(t)$
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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: ...
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Variable naming changes everything

I am having a rather unusual problem I do not understand with Mathematica where renaming one of the variables of my function causes the function to stop "working". Here is the example of the code ...
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NDSolve diffusion equation over/underdetermined

I have a feeling the solution to my problem is very simple… but my knowledge of differential equations is pretty weak. I am trying to solve a scalar diffusion equation (used in NMR spectroscopy, but ...
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3D orbits and inaccuracy over time

I wrote a little program to use Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation to animate 3 planets orbiting a central star, but I have run into a problem. Here is the code that I used to create the program (I ...
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Mass Symbolic Manipulation with Subscripts? (from plaintext Input)

The simplest example of the change being sought is a greek letter, typed in as plaintext nu, and its may be replaced by the symbol, ν: expr = 3nu*kx*ky+ ...
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How to adjust parameters to experimental data on a NDSolve problem

I have 2 differential equations with 2 variables, x and y,which are a function of t and I have the parameters k1, k2 y k3. ...
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Numerically solve 2nd order differential equation with singularity

Consider a second order differential equation with a potential that diverges at some generic value in the variable. For example: $$-y^{\prime\prime}(s)+\frac1{\mathrm{cn}{(s\mid k^2)}}y(s)=0$$ where ...
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DSolve isn't working right [closed]

So, I went to wolfram's page here: http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/DSolve.html I took a DSolve example and copy-pased it into my own mathematica notebook, but I got a vastly different ...
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NDSolve for a large system of simple ODEs

I am solving a system of many (more than 100) ODEs. It is the kind of standard rate equation encountered in semiconductor physics. Here is the system: ...
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ODE and BVP: NDSolve errors

The mathematical problem is shown here. I tried to solve writing the ...
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Is it possible to impose “Assumptions” in DSolve or equivalent? (differential equation solving)

When DSolve tries to solve differential equations, it is sometimes not smart enough to generate conditions according to different possible value of parameters. ...
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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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How to plot and solve the numerical solution of a integro-differential equation

I have a integro-differential equation of the form $y'(t) = - \int_0^t {y(t_1 )} e^{t_1 - t} dt_1, {\rm{ t}} \in {\rm{[0,10], y(0) = 1}}$ My code is: ...
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What does the Error Message in DSolve really mean?

Having this ordinary non linear differential equation $$y'-x^2 (y+1)\cdot (y+2)^2= 0$$ with the boundary condition $y(4)=2$. When trying to solve this one with Mathematica by using ...
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ode with boundary value problem does not work [closed]

I have to solve the following boundary value problem: $$ \varphi'(\lambda) + \beta(\lambda) \lambda_x^2 +\gamma(\lambda)\lambda_{xx} = k $$ where $\lambda$ is a function of $x$ (i.e. $\lambda(x)$), ...
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Adapting NDSolve to circumvent NDSolve::bdord: error for 1-D Euler Equations

I attempted to use NDSolve for the 1-D isentropic unsteady flow equations with low subsonic inflow velocity and prescribed inflow total enthalpy; along with a ...
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1D Euler Equations

Is it possible to accurately solve the 1D Euler equations in Mathematica using NDSolve? For example, let us consider the problem given here: http://www.csun.edu/~jb715473/examples/euler1d.htm Using ...
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Notation for numerical solutions to differential equations

Can somebody explain this notation to me? Using Mathematica's first example in the NDSolve documentation: ...
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How can I solve differential equation of the Bass diffusion model? [closed]

This is my first posted question. I want to do some research about applying the Bass diffusion model to software reliability. I tried to derive this model step by step. When I tried to solve Bass' ...
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Eliminating functions from system of PDE in Mathematica

Mathematica users, Let's see an example of three PDEs: How can I eliminate variables q1[x,y,z] and q2[x,y,z] from a system of ...
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Finding numerical/analytic solution to a derivative

Consider the following system of equations, with 11 dependent variables: ...
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Mathematica not able to confirm its own solution to differential equation

I type the following into Mathematica: DSolve[q''[x] + 2 x/(x^2 - 1) q'[x] - 4*q[x]/(x^2 - 1) == 0, q[x], x] It gives me the result ...
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Problem with WhenEvent

I am trying to add a time dependent fraction to a parameter in NDSolve, i.e. when 10 < t< 20, add ...
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How to integrate ParametricNDSolve solution with respect to a parameter?

I have just upgraded to the new version of Mathematica because of its new built-in ParametricNDSolve function. I need to solve a first-order non-linear ordinary ...
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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 $\dot x = y$ , $\dot y = -9\sin(x) - 0.20y$ and have gotten nowhere.
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Steady states and eigenvalues for a non-linear system:

I am trying to understand a non-linear system of equations, and find their steady states and dynamics. I am noob to understanding Mathematica (I am using version 6, but I have access to the latest ...
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Differentiating ParametricNDSolve solutions

Is there any way to differentiate a solution obtained by ParametricNDSolve? For instance, I have the position $\phi_\gamma(t)$ as a function of time, parametrized ...
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NDSolve solution for driven damped pendulum diverges

I want to solve numerically for the system of the driven damped pendulum using Mathematica. This is the second-order nonlinear equation \begin{equation} \ddot{x} + 2 \beta \dot{x}+ \omega_0^2 \sin ...
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Distance between two functions satisfying a constraint

My problem is that I have two functions that are described as follows: ...
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Conditional statements in intial conditions?

This is potentially a daft question, but I thought I'd ask it; I have some material free to diffuse in a boundary between rn and ro; I've been able to get it working nicely for neumann type boundary ...
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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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