Cresencio P. Genobiagon Jr.

ES 305 Assignment 1

11.14. A Vibrating string of unit length is fixed at both ends and is subjected to the initial
conditions
u
u  x, 0   x  1  x  ,  x, 0   0, 0  x  1
/ t
Solve the governing equation
 2 u  2u
 , 0  x  1, t  0,
x 2 y 2
for 0  t  1 using x  0.2 and t  0.2 .

function []=solve
a = 1;
it0 = inline('x.*(1-x)','x');
i1t0 = inline('0');
bx0t = inline('0');
bxft = inline('0');
xf = 1;
dx=0.02;
dt=0.02;
M = xf/dx;
T = 1;
N = T/dt;
[u,x,t] = String(a,xf,T,it0,i1t0,bx0t,bxft,M,N,dx,dt);
figure(1), clf
mesh(t,x,u)

function [u,x,t] = String(a,xf,T,it0,i1t0,bx0,bxf,M,N,dx,dt)

%solve a u_xx = u_tt for 0<=x<=xf, 0<=t<=T
% Initial Condition: u(x,0) = it0(x), u_t(x,0) = i1t0(x)
% Boundary Condition: u(0,t)= bx0(t), u(xf,t) = bxf(t)
% M = # of subintervals along x axis
% N = # of subintervals along t axis

x = [0:M]*dx;

t = [0:N]*dt;
for i = 1:M + 1, u(i,1) = it0(x(i));
end
for k = 1:N + 1
u([1 M + 1],k) = [bx0(t(k)); bxf(t(k))];
end
r = a*(dt/dx)^ 2;
r1 = r/2;
r2 = 2*(1 - r);
u(2:M,2) = r1*u(1:M - 1,1) + (1 - r)*u(2:M,1) + r1*u(3:M + 1,1)+
dt*i1t0(x(2:M)) ;
for k = 3:N + 1
u(2:M,k) = r*u(1:M - 1,k - 1) + r2*u(2:M,k-1) + r*u(3:M + 1,k - 1)- u(2:M,k -
2) ;
end
Cresencio P. Genobiagon Jr. ES 305 Assignment 1

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0.2

-0.2

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At x  0.2 and t  0.2 .

Cresencio P. Genobiagon Jr. ES 305 Assignment 1

0.4

0.2

-0.2

-0.4
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0.5 0.6
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0.2
0 0

At x  0.02 and t  0.02 .