#Ode45 matlab code#
#Ode45 matlab plus#

The integral 4 over 1 plus t squared from 0 to 1 is pi. Compare ODE23 and ODE45 by using each of them to compute pi. So this shows the high accuracy of ODE45 and the automatic step size choice in action. And then, as we get farther away from the singularity the step size increases. The big dots are more closely concentrated as we have to go around the curve. And so this is the continuous interpolant in action. And the refine option says that the big dots are too far apart and we need to fill it in with the interpolant. And the little dots are filled in with the interpolant. The big dots are the points that ODE45 chose to evaluate the differential equation. This plot shows a little better what's going on. So we actually need a little different plot here. It's only actually evaluating the function at every fourth one of these points and then using the interpolant to fill in in between. Now, here, there's a lot of points here, but this is misleading because ODE45, by default, is using the refine option. We capture the output in t and y and plot it. We let ODE45 choose its own step size by indicating we just want to integrate from 0 to 1. The differential equation is y prime is 2(a-t) y squared. Let's look at step size choice on our problem with near singularity, is a quarter. And to see how accurate it is, we see that we're actually getting this result to nine digits. If we plot it, here's the solution at those points. And now here's the approximations to the solution to that differential equation at those points.

If we supply that as the input argument to solve this differential equation and get the output at those points, we get that back as the output. We can ask for output by supplying an argument called tspan. And then, if we were to try and achieve higher order, it would take even more function evaluations per step. You can't get order five with just five function evaluations.

Dormand-Prince requires six function evaluations per step to get order five. Classical Runge-Kutta required four function evaluations per step to get order four. Or you go to the Wikipedia page for the Dormand-Prince Method and there is the same coefficients.ДЄs an aside, here is an interesting fact about higher order Runge-Kutta methods.

#Ode45 matlab code#

If we want to see the actual coefficients that are used, you can go into the code for ODE45. If the error is too big, the step is unsuccessful and that error estimate is used to get the step size to do the step over again. And then that error estimate is used to get the next step size. And then linear combinations of these are used to produce the error estimate.ДЄgain, if the error estimate is less than the specified accuracy requirements the step is successful. The function is evaluated at tn plus 1 and yn plus 1 to get a seventh slope. These six slopes, linear combinations of them, are used to produce yn plus 1. Then there are five more slopes from function values at 1/5 h, 3/10h, 4/5h, 8/9h and then at tn plus 1. The slope of tn is, first same as last left over from the previous successful step. The error correction uses a companion order four method. It is based on method published by British mathematicians JR Dormand and PJ Prince in 1980. PROFESSOR: The most frequently used ODE solver in MATLAB and Simulink is ODE45.