Questions on the use of numerical functions NIntegrate and NDSolve.

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NDSolve with Euler method

I want to solve this equation with NDSolve[] using the Euler method: x'[t] == 0.5*x[t]-0.04*(x[t])^2 with initial condition ...
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NDSolve, Schrödinger equation, and decaying solution

I am trying to solve a Schrödinger equation for a particle hitting a step potential using NDSolve in Mathematica. Here is my code: ...
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How to use results of NDsolve[] for further solving of ODEs?

I have a system of ODEs with 10 eqns. I can solve the first 5 independently. How can I use those results to solve for the remaining 5? An easy example would be $\dot{x}=f(x), \quad \dot{y}=g(x,y)$ ...
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How to solve a non-linear integral equation?

I have a non-linear integral equation that I'd like to solve with Mathematica: Solve[Integrate[B[x] v / (B[x] + B[v])^2, {x, 0, 1}] == 1, B[v], {v}] This ...
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How to find Matano plane

I have discrete collection of data points (10 to 10^4). I want to describe them by a continuous function and find a x value z, ...
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Differential Equations with Matrices

I'm trying to implement the differential equation of a Cellular Neural Network in Mathematica as seen below: ...
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Incorrect solution of diffusion equation with Neumann boundary conditions

I want to set up a PDE model, which takes a two-dimensional diffusion equation into account. The key problem is that I have some trouble in solving the two-dimensional diffusion equation numerically. ...
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Unexpected results from NDSolve

I am trying to solve a stiff reaction diffusion system with NDSolve. However, it does not produce the expected results. My problem is a spherical cell with 5 ...
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The difference between “SymbolicProcessing” -> 0 and restricting the function definition to numeric values only

The Documentation tells us that there are two ways to disable symbolic processing of the integrand by the NIntegrate function when it is known that it just slows ...
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Proper use of arbitrary number of variables

So, I'm working on a project where the number of independent variables is not fixed. Consider a problem of $N$ independent variables, $\boldsymbol{r}$. I want to perform different things with them. ...
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Multiple simultaneous events in EventLocator method for NDSolve

I'm using NDSolve to integrate a system of ODEs, and EventLocator to stop the integration when it leaves a certain region in phase space. This works perfectly as it should. However, I've also added ...
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Solving a time-dependent Schroedinger equation

I want to solve the time-dependent Schroedinger equation: $$ i\partial_t \psi(t) = H(t)\psi(t) $$ for matrix, time-dependent $H(t)$ and vector $\psi$. What is an efficient way of doing this so ...
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How to solve for an Z-Score of a T-Distribution?

I'm looking for the Z-Score for a distribution, where the integrated area sums up to 0.90. Unfortunately I always get an error from Mathematica, ...
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Is it possible to compute trapezoidal rule numerical integration?

Is it possible to compute trapezoidal rule numerical integration? I know that Mathematica has Interpolation, and that a list of points can be interpolated and then ...
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Integral of integral — it takes too much time

When I evaluate the following expression in Mathematica, it takes so much time that I don't want to wait for the evaluation to complete. So I think that there must be a better approach. ...
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How could I get the value of y[t] at each specific interpolation point?

sol = NDSolve[{Derivative[2][y][t] + Sin[y[t]] == 0, Derivative[1][y][0] == 0, y[0] == 1}, y, {t, 0, 2}] the above-mentioned differential equations can be solved ...
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Could the PrecisionGoal for NDSolve be a negative number?

The help of Mathematica doesn't say so much about the PrecisionGoal for NDSolve, and I never considered much about it even after ...
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Using a compiled function inside NIntegrate gives “CompiledFunction::cfsa” message

The following function is defined for Real input: FFc = Compile[{{x, _Real}, {EF, _Real}},If[x > EF, 0., If[x == EF, 0.5, 1.]]] FFc is now used in the ...
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Solving an ODE numerically

I really appreciate it if anyone helps me with this: How can I solve this ODE and plot the answer for $x$ on $[0.6,5]$: $$ \begin{align*} -2xy'[x] = y''[x]+ 47.21 (-.0025 x^6 & + ...
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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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Integrating a list of functions

For the purpose of this minimal example, let's say we have a list of functions, like this: f[y_?NumericQ] := {NIntegrate[z*y, {z, 0, 1}], a y} I want to ...
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How to find derivative of a numerical solution, where precision is ambiguous?

I am trying to take the derivative of a numerical solution. I am concerned that the way I'm doing this may be problematic due to numerical error; I think there must be a better way but I'm not very ...
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How to set the initial condition? (to make IC and BC consistent)

I want to find the initial condition which fits mixed boundary condition of Phi[r, Theta, t]. The original initial condition in text is Phi[r, Theta, 0] == 1 . ...
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Solve system of ordinary differential equations that doesn't have an initial condition (t=0), but has an inifinity condition (t=infinity)?

I have a question for solving t -> Infinity on Mathematica. First, I have a system of ODEs: ...
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How to handle NDSolve::ndsz problem (singularity problem)

I have 2 second order differential equations (non-linear). The physics behind them is correct. I verified the equations many times. It is a solid pendulum with a mass-spring at the end of it. Now, ...
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Error Interpretation in NIntegrate

I am using a recursion algorithm developed by Migdal for Lattice Field Theory, and I have the following code: ...
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WhenEvent in NDSolve

How come this doesn't work as I intended? ...
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NDSolve does not respond

For some sets of constants, NDSolve gives me true solutions, but when I try for example, T = 1/(2*2200), Mathematica does not respond. What can I do? The code below ...
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PDE Boundary Conditions

I am solving a PDE using Mathematica and I would like to know how to implement the condition that the two-variable function y[t,s] is zero whenever ...
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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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Artifacts in Line Plot from InterpolatingFunction

I have a periodic solution from an NDSolve that is producing an InterpolatingFunction. With the default plot settings, there is not enough PlotPoints/MaxRecursion to resolve the peaks in the function: ...
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Controlling the time step in NDSolve?

I generally use NDSolve for stiff non linear partial differential equations of 4th order. I find that a BDF1 method generally does well to placate my beast of a PDE. I've also tried out ...
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Increase precision of custom function

I hope the title is not misleading: Suppose I have a function that is quite complicated, e.g. f[u_] := Exp[-Exp[- Abs[c.u]^a] Sin[d.u] Sin[(Abs[c.u]^a) ... I ...
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optimization problem with NDSolve

I want to minimize the function fcc. When fcc is calculated for a specified point the answer is correct: ...
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How to speed up the plot of NIntegrate?

Here is a toy example: f[t_] := NIntegrate[Sin[x], {x, 0, t}]; Plot[f[t], {t, 0, 10}] // Timing Even such a simple example will take 2.8 seconds on my computer. ...
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How to avoid this kind of numerical error caused by extreme parameters when using NDSolve?

Here I use a one-dimensional heat conduction equation as the example. I found that when the thermal diffusion coefficient is small enough, Mathematica will give a result against the second law of ...
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Retrieve values of InterpolatingFunction

While analyzing a large system of ODE's, I defined a particular ratio p, which contains some variables that are represented by ...
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LevinRule and SphericalBessels

I'm currently looking at a simplified problem that approximates another problem I'm looking into. In this simplified problem I at least have an analytic integrand and can easily provide all info on ...
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Methods to speed up numerical NDSolve, NIntegrate,

I am not very used to do numerical simulations on Mathematica. Do you have any ideas how to improve i.e. speed up my code? ...
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NDSolve with vectors

I'm stumped. I'm trying to write this using vectors, but the 2nd derivative isn't being expanded like I expected it to be. This is a system of equations for a projectile with quadratic drag and ...
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Solving the Sine Gordon PDE in mathematica

how can i solve this equation in mathematica? this is sine-gordon eq. but the boundary condition can not recognized by mathematica . thank you for you attention. ...
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Optimizing a function involving NDSolve results in error messages

I want to minimize a function f with NMinimize but an error occurs that says: ...
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Numerical solution of a differential equation with NIntegrate coefficients

I am trying to solve a linear ODE with a variable coefficient which is given in terms of an integral I can only do numerically. That is, I have an equation of the form $$ ...
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NDSolve Problem

I am trying to solve a chemical equilibrium ODE with NDSolve where one function is the argument to another. I.E. My equations look like: ...
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tricky memoization

Let's say I have the NDSolve example for documentation involving splitting 2nd order into set of 1st order ODEs: ...
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Compute integral symbolically or numerically

I want to compute the integral of the following integrand ...
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How to remove a singularity with WhenEvent

Bellow I have a differential equation which hits a singularity at low values of t. What I want to do is somehow utilize the WhenEvent command in order to replace ...