Mathematica: Solving system of three equations

[ll235]

Hello,

I am new to mathematica, and I am having trouble using the solve/nsolve to solve my system of three equations.

Attached is my code so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated. It gets stuck in the loop section of the code. I have also pasted the code below.

Thanks!
Alicia

Defining reference conditions

In[3]:= l0 = Sqrt[0.375];
s0 = 0.5 ;
k = 1;


Using prestress to define

In[6]:= \[Xi] = 1 - lR/l0;

In[7]:=
lR[\[Xi]val_] := l0 (1 - \[Xi]val);

In[10]:=
lRvalues = Table[lR[\[Xi]range], {\[Xi]range, {0.0, 0.1, 0.5, 0.9, 1.0}}];



Defining cable lengths

In[11]:= Clear[sx, sy, sz]
l1[sx_] := 0.5 Sqrt[sx^2 + sy^2 - 2 sy + 2];
l2 := 0.5 Sqrt[sy^2 + sz^2 - 2 sz + 2];
l3[sx_] := 0.5 Sqrt[sz^2 + sx^2 - 2 sx + 2];

In[15]:=
F1[lR_] = k (l1[sx] - lR);
F2[lR_] = k (l2 - lR);
F3[lR_] = k (l3[sx] - lR);


F1values = Table[F1[lr], {lr, lRvalues}];
F2values = Table[F1[lr], {lr, lRvalues}];
F3values = Table[F1[lr], {lr, lRvalues}];

In[59]:= F1values[[1]] /. sx -> 0.5

Out[59]= -0.612372 + 0.5 Sqrt[2.25 - 2 sy + sy^2]


sxval = Range[0.5, 2, 0.5];
For[j = 1, j < Length[sxval] + 1, j++,
For[i = 1, i < Length[F1values] + 1, i++,
Solve[{(F1values[] /. sx -> sxval[[j]]) (1 - sy)/l1[sxval[[j]]] ==
F2values[] sy/l2,
F2values[] (1 - sz)/l2 == (F3values[] /. sx -> sxval[[j]]) sz/
l3[sxval[[j]]],
T == 2 ((F1values[] /. sx -> sxval[[j]]) sxval[[j]]/
l1[sxval[[j]]] + (F3values[] /. sx -> sxval[[j]]) (
sxval[[j]] - 1)/l3[sxval[[j]]])}, {T, sy, sz}]
(*sy1=NSolve[(F1values[]/.sx ->sxval[[j]]) (1-sy)/l1[sxval[[j]]]==
F2values[] sy/l2,sy,Reals]//FullSimplify;*)
(*Print[sy1]*)
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[ll235]

Here is the attachment

 

[Bill Simpson]

I would change these
F1[lR_] = k (l1[sx] - lR);
F2[lR_] = k (l2 - lR);
F3[lR_] = k (l3[sx] - lR);
to these
F1[lR_] := k (l1[sx] - lR);
F2[lR_] := k (l2 - lR);
F3[lR_] := k (l3[sx] - lR);

If you can justify that your square roots of quadratics that appear in all of your denominators can be cross multiplied to get rid of those denominators then this might give Mathematica fewer possible zero denominators to worry about and possibly speed things up.

But even with that, with trying rationals instead of decimals, trying Simplify and FullSimplify, you still have a forest of products of square roots of multivariate quadratics and I suspect there needs to be a different approach.