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35.1 Encapsulating Differential Equations (.NET, C#, CSharp, VB, Visual Basic, F#)

Class FirstOrderInitialValueProblem represents a first order initial value differential equation. If is the unknown function, the first order initial value problem may be stated as

 

where denotes the first derivative of y with respect to x, F is a continuous function with bounded partial derivatives, and is the value of the unknown function y at the point .

A FirstOrderInitialValueProblem instance is constructed from a function, F, and initial value, and . The function F is encapsulated as a Func<double, double, double>, a delegate which takes two doubles and returns a double.

For example, the following code constructs a FirstOrderInitialValueProblem where :

Code Example – C# ordinary differential equations (ODE)

Func<double, double, double> f = 
  delegate( double x, double y )
  { 
    return x * x;
  };



double x0 = 0.0;
double y0 = 1.0;



FirstOrderInitialValueProblem prob =
  new FirstOrderInitialValueProblem( f, x0, y0 );

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