DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING

UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY, PESHAWAR

MtE 350L Numerical Method

Student Name: Mian Sayaf Ali Shah Reg. No: 18PWMCT0612

Lab Tittle: Initial value problem by Euler method

Lab No: 11

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 Numerical Methods
Lab Report # 11

Initial value problem by Euler method

Submitted by: Mian Sayaf Ali Shah(18PWMCT0612)

Submitted to: Dr. Shahzad Anwar

Section: A

Submission Date (February 11, 2021)

DEPARTMENT OF MECHATRONICS ENGINEERING

University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan
Objective:
 To know about the Euler method and Euler modified method.
 To write the code for determining solution of initial value problem by Euler method.
 To know about importance of Euler and Euler modified method.

Software:
 MATLAB

Theory:
Initial Value Problems:
An initial value problem consists of
1. A first-order differential equation y =f (x, y), and
2. An initial condition of the form y(a) =b.
Euler Method:
Euler’s Method, is just another technique used to analyze a Differential Equation, which uses
the idea of local linearity or linear approximation, where we use small tangent lines over a
short distance to approximate the solution to an initial-value problem
Yn+1 =Yn+h*f(xn,yn)
Where xn=x0+n*h

Post Lab Tasks:

Write down MATLAB code for Euler ODE to solve given problem

dy/dt+20y=7e-0.5t;
y(0)=5
MATLAB Code
f = input ('Enter your function:');
t0 = input ('Enter initial value of independent variable:');
y0 = input ('Enter initial value of dependent variable:');
h = input ('Enter step size:');
tn = input ('Enter point at which you want to find the solution:');
n = (tn - t0)/h %No. of iterations
t(1) = t0;
y(1) = y0;
for i = 1:n
y(i+1) = y(i) + h*f(t(i),y(i));
t(i+1) = t0 +i*h;
fprintf ('y(%.2f) = %.4f\n',t(i+1),y(i+1));
end
Results:

Figure 1 Result of Task 1

Conclusion:
After performing this lab, we come to know about the computations in MATLAB and basic
operations that we did on initial value problems in MATLAB. We write the code for Euler
method to determine the solution of ODE and initial value problem.