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solving system of differential equations

Thread starter marijke
Start date Aug 21, 2006

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Aug 21, 2006

marijke

Civil/Environmental

Dear all,

I want to solve a system of three first order differential equations with three unknowns and three boundary conditions (two at x=0 and one at x=L). I tried by using dsolve with initial conditions but i always receive an error "error, in dsolve/IC required a specification of the indeterminate functions". Is this because my Boundary conditions are not all defined at x=0? I also tried solving by using dsolve(sys, numeric) but also got an error. Can someone help me with this? I just started working with Matlab.

Thanks a lot!
Marijke