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assigning initial conditions on PDE solver?
Posted:
May 9, 2006 6:08 AM
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Hi
I'd like to model adsorption of a substance onto activated carbon,
using the homogenous surface diffusion model. This model uses a
partial differential equation:
dq/dt = K/r^2 d/dr(r^2 dq/dr)
I can solve this equation easily using pdepe. In the next step, I'd
like to solve this equation in a loop, where the calculated end-state
(q(x, t_end)) should be used as new initial condition.
However, I can't use a vector as initial condition. In the newsgroups
I found exactly my problem. Unfortunately I don't fully understand
its solution, how to use pdeval...
anonymissy, "assigning initial conditions on PDE solver?" #, 11 Mar 2004 12:52 am </WebX?50@@.eed2dac>
I tried the following:
sol = pdepe(m, @pdehsdm, @pdehsdmic, @pdehsdmbc, x, t, [], q_old)
...
function q0 = pdehsdmic(m, x, q_old)
q0 = pdeval(m, x, q_old, xout);
where q_old is a row vector q(t_end, x) and x = linspace(0,R,10).
I know that q0 is a matrix with [q_old, dq_old/dx], but I don't get
to run my program.
Help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Christian
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