Solving first order differential equation

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Hello, I've tried multiple times to solve the following differential equation in Matlab but no luck so far. I have about 131 different values of U for 131 seconds of time t. A, B, r are constants, y and dy/dt has initial conditions of 0. I want to calculate L for each time t and plot a graph.
I've tried using ode23 and created a function. But it doesn't work. Any help in coding this in Matlab would greatly appreciated as I'm getting desperate! Thank you very much.
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Stephan
Stephan on 21 Oct 2019
Please attach what you have tried
Jon
Jon on 21 Oct 2019
Before giving you advice advice about how to solve the problem using MATLAB I need to understand what is known and what is being solved for. You say the the load L is an output, so I assume that is unknown. Do you know U as a function of time? If so how is it specified. Do you have it defined by a function, or are you given values of U for specific values of time? You say that h is a displacement, so is the velocity U the rate of change (derivative with respect to time) of h?

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Star Strider
Star Strider on 21 Oct 2019
You need to re-formulate your ‘first_order’ function. MATLAB derives a different set of equations:
syms A B h(t) L r U h0 Y
Eqn = diff(h,2) == 2/(U*r*B)*L + U*A + 0.6211*U*h/B;
[VF,Sbs] = odeToVectorField(Eqn)
first_order = matlabFunction(VF, 'Vars',{t,Y,A,B,L,r,U})
producing:
VF =
Y[2]
A*U + (6211*U*Y[1])/(10000*B) + (2*L)/(B*U*r)
Sbs =
h
Dh
first_order = @(t,Y,A,B,L,r,U)[Y(2);A.*U+(U.*Y(1).*6.211e-1)./B+(L.*2.0)./(B.*U.*r)];
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Saruultugs Batzorig
Saruultugs Batzorig on 24 Oct 2019
I see, L is a variable in that case. t being time goes from 0 to 100. I do not have values for h.
Star Strider
Star Strider on 24 Oct 2019
To estimate ‘L’ as a function of ‘t’, you would need to provide values for ‘h(t)’. You could then solve for ‘L’.
Alternatively, you could re-formulate your differential equation in terms of . However this still leaves the problem of defining ‘h’, unless you reformulate it to eliminate ‘h’.
I have no idea what you are doing.

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Jon
Jon on 21 Oct 2019
Edited: Jon on 21 Oct 2019
Your verbal problem description in which you call L and ouput, but in fact you know what it is, somewhat confuses me, but in anycase going from your equations I think I see what you are trying to do.
Besides the details of how to get extract the variables from what is returned by ode23, I think you have some more fundamental issues.
You are solving for dh/dt , but you want h. If you want h then you should set up a system of two first order ode's
So for example defining y1 = h, y2 = dh/dt
dydt = fun(t,y)
dydt = [y(2)
(2/(U.*r*B)).*L+U.*A+(U./B)*0.6211*y(1)];
Note that you can also use two left hand argument to ode23 and get the answers returned as y and t rather than in a structure if you prefer.
The additional arguments can be sent using the anonymous function as you did before as long as they are in the local workspace when you call ode23.
Sorry I see now that @Starstrider has been giving you additional ideas while I was writing this answer, but maybe this is helpful too.
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Saruultugs Batzorig
Saruultugs Batzorig on 21 Oct 2019
Thank you for you answer, ultimately I'm trying to plot L against time t for the given equation with the said initial conditions.
Jon
Jon on 21 Oct 2019
Edited: Jon on 21 Oct 2019
What exactly do you know, and what are you trying to solve for?
You can not solve for both L and h knowing only U as a function of time.
If you know h as a function of time and U as a function of time you could differenitate h twice then substitute for d2hdt in your function and solve for L as a function of time. (Not solving an ODE at all).
If you know L(t) as a function of time and U(t) as a function of time then you could use ode23 but you must include them within your dydt function. So just as an illustrative made up example if U(t) = sin(t) and L(t) = cos(t) you would have
dydt = fun(t,y)
U = sin(t);
L = cos(t)
dydt = fun(t,y)
dydt = [y(2)
(2/(U.*r*B)).*L+U.*A+(U./B)*0.6211*y(1)];

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