Problem using ODE45 function

function dy=pair(t,y,a,b,d,hstress,sigma,Hstar,kc,c)           %function definition
dy=zeros(4,1);
dy(1)=a*sinh((b*(sigma^d)*(1-y(2)))/((1-y(3))*(1-y(4)))) ;
dy(2)=((hstress*(a*sinh(b*(sigma^d)*(1-y(2)))/(1-y(3))*(1-y(4))))/(sigma^d))*(1-y(2)/Hstar);
dy(3)=(kc/3)*power((1-y(3)),4);
dy(4)=c*y(1);
end

The above code is stored as a function file

 a=0.5179;
 b=1.1003E-3;
 c=0.4576;
 d=1;
 hstress=3463.46;
 Hstar=0.7846;
 Kc=0.1137;
 tspan=0:0.01:40;
 initial_conditions=[0;0;0;0]  %change the intial condition according to your values
 [t,y]=ode45(@(t,y)pair(t,y,a,b,d,hstress,sigma,Hstar,Kc,c),tspan,initial_conditions)   %function call
 plot(t,y(:,1))

Ending with the error

Error using sigma (line 82)
Not enough input arguments.

Error in @(t,y)pair(t,y,a,b,d,hstress,sigma,Hstar,Kc,c)

I suspect I know a bit of what's going wrong.., yet I'm at loss for how to fix it.. Any help is much appreciated..

Error in odearguments (line 87)
f0 = feval(ode,t0,y0,args{:});   % ODE15I sets args{1} to yp0.

Error in ode45 (line 113)
[neq, tspan, ntspan, next, t0, tfinal, tdir, y0, f0, odeArgs, odeFcn, ...

Error in excuse (line 10)
 [t,y]=ode45(@(t,y)pair(t,y,a,b,d,hstress,sigma,Hstar,Kc,c),tspan,initial_conditions)   %function
 call

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

You haven't defined sigma anywhere , I suggest you use a different name for example Sigma because there exists a function named sigma() in MATLAB.