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Ray Vickson  
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 More options Oct 24 2009, 5:20 am
Newsgroups: sci.math
From: Ray Vickson <RGVick...@shaw.ca>
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:20:21 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Sat, Oct 24 2009 5:20 am
Subject: Re: ? estimating coef of DE
On Oct 23, 8:09 pm, Cheng Cosine <asec...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:

>  Given dy/dt = a*y+f, and we want to estimate the value of a by
> measuring

> the value of y for a given f. The question is how many different f
> should

> we set as the input so that we have enough output(s) of y to estimate
> a?

If y(0) = y0, the solution of the DE is y(t) = -(f/a) + (f+y0*a)*exp
(a*t)/a, so if you know y0 it is enough to measure y at one non-zero
value of t. If you don't know y0, you need two measurements, y1 = y
(t1) and y2 = y(t2). This gives two nonlinear equations to be solved
for y0 and a. These can be tackled numerically using your favorite
equation-solving routine.

R.G. Vickson

>  Suppose we are dealing with a PDE like pdiff(u, t, 1) = a*pdiff(u, x,
> 2)+f

> where pdiff(u, x, 2) means twice partial derivate of u to x. Again we
> want

> to estimate a for given f and measuremnt u. What are the extra

> considerations we have, compared with the case when we deal with

> only ode?

>  Thanks,


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