taylor series method expansion

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PJS KUMAR
PJS KUMAR on 22 Sep 2018
Commented: Torsten on 27 Sep 2018
I wrote the following code
function yb=taylor(f,a,b,ya,n)
syms x y;
h=(b-a)/n;
y(1)=ya;
y(2)=f;
ht=h.^(0:5)./factorial(0:5)
for i=2:3
y(i+1)=diff(y(i),x);
end
y
I got the output as follows
>> f=@(x)x^2+y^2;
>> taylor(f,0,0.8,1.5,4)
ht =
1.0000 0.2000 0.0200 0.0013 0.0001 0.0000
y =
[ 3/2, x^2 + y(x)^2, 2*x + 2*y(x)*diff(y(x), x), 2*diff(y(x), x)^2 + 2*y(x)*diff(y(x), x, x) + 2]
Suggest me how to perform the following actions
1) I want to evaluate y at different values of x
2) Multiply ht and y elements and sum
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PJS KUMAR
PJS KUMAR on 25 Sep 2018
Edited: PJS KUMAR on 25 Sep 2018
I wrote the following code for Taylor series expansion
function yb=taylor(f,a,b,ya,n)
syms x y;
h=(b-a)/n;
y(1)=ya;
y(2)=f;
ht=h.^(0:3)./factorial(0:3)
for i=2:3
y(i+1)=diff(y(i),x);
end
s=sum(ht.*y)
I run code and got the following output
>> syms x y(x);
>> f=@(x)x^2+y^2;
>> taylor(f,1,3,0.8,4)
s =
x/4 + (y(x)*diff(y(x), x))/4 + diff(y(x), x)^2/24 + y(x)^2/2 + (y(x)*diff(y(x), x, x))/24 + x^2/2 + 101/120
Now i want to evaluate the output 's' at different values of x and y, where x is from a to b and y(a)=0.8
Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 25 Sep 2018
y' = x^2+y^2, for the values of x = 1 (0.5) 3 with y(1)=0.8
I am having difficulty understanding the initial conditions. Could you confirm that you are referring to
syms y(x)
>> simplify(dsolve(diff(y,x) == x^2+y^2, y(1)==0.8))
ans =
piecewise(C5 ~= 0, (x*(4*besselj(-1/4, 1/2)*besselj(-3/4, x^2/2) + 4*besselj(1/4, 1/2)*besselj(3/4, x^2/2) + 5*besselj(-3/4, 1/2)*besselj(3/4, x^2/2) - 5*besselj(3/4, 1/2)*besselj(-3/4, x^2/2)))/(4*besselj(1/4, 1/2)*besselj(-1/4, x^2/2) - 4*besselj(-1/4, 1/2)*besselj(1/4, x^2/2) + 5*besselj(-3/4, 1/2)*besselj(-1/4, x^2/2) + 5*besselj(3/4, 1/2)*besselj(1/4, x^2/2)))
and you want taylor expansion of that without having solved the differential equation ?

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PJS KUMAR
PJS KUMAR on 25 Sep 2018
function D = dy(x,y)
f = x^2+y^2;
df = 2*x+2*y*f;
d2f = 2+2*(f^2+y*df);
d3f = 2*(2*f*df+f*df+y*d2f);
d4f = 2*(2*(df^2+f*d2f)+df^2+f*d2f+f*d2f+y*d3f);
D = [f df d2f d3f d4f];
end
suggest me to change the above code as given below, so that the differentiation is calculated by using diff function, without giving the differentiation directly in the program.
function D = dy(x,y)
f = x^2+y^2;
df = diff(f);
d2f = diff(df);
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 26 Sep 2018
As I tried to get you to understand before:
If you are using a symbolic variable with a particular name, then you should strongly avoid using the same variable name for a different purpose, such as storing a list of particular locations to execute at, or such as storing the results of calculating the taylor series at particular locations.
Torsten
Torsten on 27 Sep 2018
1. n is undefined.
2. You use i as a loop variable in both nested loops.
3. Walter's remark.

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 22 Sep 2018
As I already explained to you, because you have
y = [ 3/2, x^2 + y(x)^2, 2*x + 2*y(x)*diff(y(x), x), 2*diff(y(x), x)^2 + 2*y(x)*diff(y(x), x, x) + 2]
then the y on the left side refers to the same thing as the y on the right side, and so y(x) on the right side signifies array indexing. Your y vector is 5 elements long, so the only valid values of x for this would be 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5. Each y(x) would resolve to a numeric scalar value, and diff() of a numeric scalar value is empty. Any operation involving an empty array returns an empty array, so all of the entries except the first two are going to disappear, leaving you only [3/2, x^2 + y(x)^2] to work with for preliminary consistency.
Now, with that subset, can x = 1 be made self-consistent? That would require that y(1) be 3/2, which seems plausible. With the subset, can x = 2 be made self-consistent? That would require that y(2) = x^2 + y(x)^2 = 2^2 + y(2)^2 . Rewriting as z = 4 + z^2 we can see that has only complex roots 1/2-1i*sqrt(15)*(1/2), 1/2+1i*sqrt(15)*(1/2) . Is that acceptable, to force y(2) to be complex valued?

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