New answers tagged differential-equations
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I think the problem with initial conditions is more related with the sum of very small numbers with other that are only small (I suspect the problem resides in terms like gam^8, since gam is small). The resulting numeric inaccuracy will bring problems.
I've played around with other initial conditions and integration times and in octave (that is similar but ...
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Take the first expression and start to reduce the $x$ values to $x_i$,
\begin{align}
\frac{u_{i+1}^n - u_i^n}{x_{i+\frac{1}{2}}} - \frac{u_i^n - u_{i-1}^n}{x_{i-\frac{1}{2}}}
&=
\frac{(x_i-\frac12Δx)(u_{i+1}^n - u_i^n) - (x_i+\frac12Δx)(u_i^n - u_{i-1}^n)}{x_{i-\frac{1}{2}}x_{i+\frac{1}{2}}}
\\
&=\frac{x_i}{x_i^2-\frac14Δx^2}(u_{i+1}^n - 2u_i^n + u_{...
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