Numerical methods for systems of nonlinear ODEs

Thread starter arunma
Start date Apr 29, 2006
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Nonlinear Numerical Numerical methods Odes Systems

Apr 29, 2006

arunma

I have a quick question. For a project that I'm doing, I need to numerically solve systems of nonlinear differential equations. Can anyone suggest a numerical method which I could code as a short C program? Thanks.

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May 1, 2006

J77

Most people would start with Euler, followed by Runge-Kutta...

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/ODESolving.html

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