Dynamics Solver Quick Reference
This is very high quality freeware for Dynamical Systems on
Windows from Juan
Aguirregabinia in Spain.
The program is installed in the directory C:\Programs\Dynamics
Solver in the Mathlab and is also listed on the Programs menu.
Extensive ocumentation can be found in that folder or here.
Tutorial
The tutorial focuses on the case of a higher dimensional system.
It can be started within Windows from the Tutorial entry of the Dynamic Solver submenu
of Programs.
Entering a System
Most entries about a new system are
made from submenus of the edit menu.
- First enter the
type and dimension
- of your system using the type dialog box from the edit menu.
- Supported types are System of ODE's, Map, or
Single ODE
(higher order) ODE .
- Then
-
- Variables
- have both a collective name e.g. x and
individual names. Components (or higher derivatives for systems)
can be referred to as x[i] or by their individual names. It is
best to keep the individual and collective names distinct.
distinct.
- Equations
- are the next item to be entered from the dialog
box below the edit menu.
- A Graph Window
- must be created from a menu entry on the
Output menu.
- Initial Conditions
- Printing
is via screen dump (alt print-screen and paste into Microsoft Paint).
Some options are Disabled
probably because of incompatibilities with Windows 2000 style
security.
Files acan be saved
below the directories C:\tmp or C:\users.
Last Update: August 29, 2002