I don't really know where to start with this problem, as I haven't had much experience with this but it is required to solve this part of the project using a computer.
I have a 2nd order ODE which is:
m = 1220
k = 35600
g = 17.5
a = 450000
and b is between 1000 and 10000 with increments of 500.
x(0)= 0
x'(0)= 5
m*x''(t) + b*x'(t) + k*x(t)+a*(x(t))^3 = -m*g
I need to find the smallest b such that the solution is never positive. I know what the graph should look like, but I just don't know how to use odeint to get a solution to the differential equation. This is the code I have so far:
from numpy import *
from matplotlib.pylab import *
from scipy.integrate import odeint
m = 1220.0
k = 35600.0
g = 17.5
a = 450000.0
x0= [0.0,5.0]
b = 1000
tmax = 10
dt = 0.01
def fun(x, t):
return (b*x[1]-k*x[0]-a*(x[0]**3)-m*g)*(1.0/m)
t_rk = arange(0,tmax,dt)
sol = odeint(fun, x0, t_rk)
plot(t_rk,sol)
show()
Which doesn't really produce much of anything.
Any thoughts? Thanks
To solve a second-order ODE using scipy.integrate.odeint
, you should write it as a system of first-order ODEs:
I'll define z = [x', x]
, then z' = [x'', x']
, and that's your system! Of course, you have to plug in your real relations:
x'' = -(b*x'(t) + k*x(t) + a*(x(t))^3 + m*g) / m
becomes:
z[0]' = -1/m * (b*z[0] + k*z[1] + a*z[1]**3 + m*g)
z[1]' = z[0]
Or, just call it d(z)
:
def d(z, t):
return np.array((
-1/m * (b*z[0] + k*z[1] + a*z[1]**3 + m*g), # this is z[0]'
z[0] # this is z[1]'
))
Now you can feed it to the odeint
as such:
_, x = odeint(d, x0, t).T
(The _
is a blank placeholder for the x'
variable we made)
In order to minimize b
subject to the constraint that the maximum of x
is always negative, you can use scipy.optimize.minimize
. I'll implement it by actually maximizing the maximum of x
, subject to the constraint that it remains negative, because I can't think of how to minimize a parameter without being able to invert the function.
from scipy.optimize import minimize
from scipy.integrate import odeint
m = 1220
k = 35600
g = 17.5
a = 450000
z0 = np.array([-.5, 0])
def d(z, t, m, k, g, a, b):
return np.array([-1/m * (b*z[0] + k*z[1] + a*z[1]**3 + m*g), z[0]])
def func(b, z0, *args):
_, x = odeint(d, z0, t, args=args+(b,)).T
return -x.max() # minimize negative max
cons = [{'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda b: b - 1000, 'jac': lambda b: 1}, # b > 1000
{'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda b: 10000 - b, 'jac': lambda b: -1}, # b < 10000
{'type': 'ineq', 'fun': lambda b: func(b, z0, m, k, g, a)}] # func(b) > 0 means x < 0
b0 = 10000
b_min = minimize(func, b0, args=(z0, m, k, g, a), constraints=cons)