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Mr. Gentleman
Mr. Gentleman

Reputation: 157

Error using ode45 and deval

I am trying to integrate a set of ordinary differential equations and calculate the solution and its first order derivative at given points. Matlab provides "ode45" to solve the equations and "deval" to calculate the solution and its first derivative, however, I am not able to use them in my case.

Matlab gives the following example:

sol = ode45(@vdp1,[0 20],[2 0]);

x = linspace(0,20,100);

y = deval(sol,x,1);

plot(x,y);

where I guess "vdp1" has been defined by Matlab and this example worked well. However, when I tried to use the following codes:

sol = ode45('vdp1',[0 20],[2 0]);

x = linspace(0,20,100);

y = deval(sol,x,1);

plot(x,y); it claims error:

"Error using deval (line 46) sol must be a structure returned by a differential equation solver."

So I think I have to use "@vdp1" in "ode45" instead of "'vdp1'", otherwise "deval" would not work.

But in my case I defined my derivative in a file as the following:

function dv = der( ~,vec,~,alpha, eta, m )
%UNTITLED4 Summary of this function goes here
%   Detailed explanation goes here

vx=vec(1);
vy=vec(2);
vz=vec(3);

dv(1,1)=(alpha-eta*vx)/m;
dv(2,1)=(alpha-eta*vy)/m;
dv(3,1)=(alpha-eta*vz)/m;

end

I can use "ode45" to solve the equation with the following codes:

clear all;

% Parameters 
alpha=10;
eta=0.5;
m=1;

% Inititial conditions
vec_ini=[0,0,0]';

% Integration time
Tf=10;

OPTIONS=odeset('abstol',1e-6,'reltol',1e-6);

sol=ode45('der',[0,Tf],vec_ini,OPTIONS,alpha,eta,m);

The codes worked. But when I added two more lines to use "deval" as follows

tvec=linspace(0,Tf,10);

[sxint,spxint]=deval(sol,tvec);

it saied:

Error using deval (line 46)

sol must be a structure returned by a differential equation solver.

If I change the ode45 part as

sol=ode45(@der,[0,Tf],vec_ini,OPTIONS,alpha,eta,m);

it said

Error using der (line 9)

Not enough input arguments.

Error in odearguments (line 88)

f0 = feval(ode,t0,y0,args{:}); % ODE15I sets args{1} to yp0.

Error in ode45 (line 114)

[neq, tspan, ntspan, next, t0, tfinal, tdir, y0, f0, odeArgs, odeFcn, ...

So can anyone tell me how to use "ode45" and "deval" to calculate the solution and its first derivative with a customer defined derivative?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2054

Answers (1)

am304
am304

Reputation: 13876

I think you are not using the function handle correctly. I would suggest rewriting your der function as follows:

function dv = der( t,y,params )

vx=y(1);
vy=y(2);
vz=y(3);

dv(1,1)=(params(1)-params(2)*vx)/params(3);
dv(2,1)=(params(1)-params(2)*vy)/params(3);
dv(3,1)=(params(1)-params(2)*vz)/params(3);

end

and then olving the ode as follows:

params = [alpha eta m];
sol=ode45(@(t,y) der(t,y,params),[0,Tf],vec_ini,OPTIONS);
tvec=linspace(0,Tf,10);
[sxint,spxint]=deval(sol,tvec);

Upvotes: 2

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