The purpose of this paper is to develop the shooting method as a technique for approximating the solution to the two-point boundary value problem on the interval [a,b] with the even order differential equation {i.e. n is even)
u(n)(t) + f(t, u(t), u(i)(t, ),..., u(n-1)(t)) = 0
and boundary conditions
u(a) = A
u(b) = B
and with at most n-2 other boundary conditions specified at either a or b. The basic proceedure will be illustrated by the following example.
Consider the two-point boundary value problem (0.1) (0.2) (0.3) with the additional boundary conditions
u(i)(a) = mi
for i = 1, ... ,k-1,k+l, ... ,n-1. The first step is to find values m1 and m2 such that the solutions or "shots", u1(t) and u2(t), to (0.1) that satisfy the initial conditions
u(a) = A
u(k-1)(a)= mk-1
u(k)(a) = m1
u(k+1)(a) = mk+l
u(n-1)(a) = mn-1
with 1 = 1,2, respectively, with the property that
u1(b) < B < u2(b).
The interval [m1,m2] is then searched by seccussive bisection to find the value, m, such that the solution or "shot", u(t), to the initial value problem with (0.1) and initial conditions
u(a) = A
u(k-1)(a)= mk-1
u(k)(a) = m1
u(k+1)(a) = mk+l
u(n-1)(a) = mn-1
has the property that u(b) = B.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UTAHS/oai:digitalcommons.usu.edu:etd-8048 |
| Date | 01 May 1976 |
| Creators | Baumann, John D. |
| Publisher | DigitalCommons@USU |
| Source Sets | Utah State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
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| Source | All Graduate Theses and Dissertations |
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