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Complex number Manipulation and replacement rules in Mathematica
Posted:
Jul 11, 1996 8:01 PM
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Hello Everybody,
I am doing some numerical analysis work, that involves obtaining the
eigenvalues of matrix, and checking that the largest eigenvalue is less
than one, for possible stability conditions. The eigenvalues are
complex in general, and I use Mathematica to obtain them.
The problem is that the matrices are originally large, so the
eigenvalues are complicated, and usually span more than one page of
output. I would like to simplify them further, by introducing some
nondimensional arguments, and seperating the real and the imaginary
parts. My attempts failed! Here is what I tried, and I hope that
someone would show me a better and (working way!).
First I load the Algebra/ReIm.m package, then define all variables as
real using Im[variable_name]^=0;
Then I try to get Re[exp], and Im[exp]. On very small expressions like
Re[a+I b] this works! But on larger expressions, like my eigenvalues it
takes ages to compute (6 ~ 7 hours, and I stop the computation without
getting an answer). I can discern by eye, that anything multiplying 'I'
is definitely the imaginary part as all variables are real, and
eigenvalues donot have sqrts', powers or stuff that might produce
complex numbers if negative.
I next try to introduce nondimensional groups by defining replacement
rules like this
rules1 = { k/h -> cs, nu/rho -> c}; and stuff like that. However, if in
an expression
k is not immediately devided by h, the replacements donot work. I tried
{ k -> h cs}; and stuff like that, but finally Mathematica would not
divide the h in the numerator and the denominator.
Is there any solution to these perplexing problems, and is there a way
to define the type of variables like real, complex, and properties like
positive negative, in Mathematica?
Help is greately appreciated
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Abdelwahab Taha
Dept. of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, UIUC
WWW: http://www.students.uiuc.edu/~taha
e-mail: taha@uiuc.edu
"Take care of the sense, and the signs will take
care of themselves", -- Lewis Carrol
Drive carefully; 90% of the people in the world are
caused by accidents.
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