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bvpT16

 

 

bvpT16
Contributor:  testset of J.R. Cash
Discipline:  academic test
Accession:  2013

 

 

 

Short description:

A second order differential equations that is reduced to a first order system of 2 equations.

Applicable solvers:

all the solvers supported by the Test Set.

 

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Mathematical description:

 

The problem is

    \begin{eqnarray*} \lambda^{2} z'' = -\pi^{2} z / 4, \;\;\;z(0) = 0, \;\;\; z(1) = \sin(\pi / 2\lambda), \end{eqnarray*}

with

    \[ z \in \mathbb{R} , \;\;\; t\in [0,1]. \]

We write this problem in first order form by defining y_1=z and y_2=z', yielding a system of differential equations of the form

    \begin{equation*} \left(\begin{array}{c} y_1\\ y_2 \end{array}\right)'= \left(\begin{array}{c} y_2\\ \frac{1}{\lambda^{2}}f(y_1) \end{array}\right), \end{equation*}

where

    \begin{equation*} f(z) = -\pi^{2} z / 4, \end{equation*}

with

    \[ (y_1,y_2)^T \in \mathbb{R}^{2}, \ \ \ t \in [0,1]. \]

The boundary conditions are obtained from

    \begin{equation*} \left( \begin{array}{cc} 1 & 0 \\ 0 & 0 \\ \end{array} \right) \left(\begin{array}{c} y_{1}(0)\\ y_{2}(0) \end{array}\right) + \left( \begin{array}{cc} 0 & 0 \\ 1 & 0 \\ \end{array} \right) \left(\begin{array}{c} y_{1}(1)\\ y_{2}(1) \end{array}\right)=\left(\begin{array}{c} 0 \\ \sin(\pi / 2\lambda) \end{array}\right). \end{equation*}

Exact solution

    \[z(t) = \sin( \pi t / 2\lambda) \operatorname{when} 1/\lambda \operatorname{is odd}.\]

The solution oscillates rapidly for small \lambda.

 
 

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