Sorry for the inconvenience,
i try to solve this particular diffusion equation with NO boundaries http://astronomy.nju.edu.cn/~chenpf/c/courses/fluid/pringle81.pdf equation (2.10) with nu=cost. I use this code to simplify the equation:
pde = D[s[x, t],
t] == (3/2)*D[s[x, t], x] + (3/4)*x^-2*D[s[x, t], {x, 2}] -
1/(4*x) ;
mu = 0.5;
sigma = 0.05;
and to solve the equation (that that by choosing nu=cost. is a linear diffusion partial equation) i use this:
sol = DSolve[{pde,
s[x, 0] == Exp[-(x - mu)^2/(2*sigma^2)]/Sqrt[2*Pi*sigma^2]},
s[x, t], {x, t}]
whit a particular choice of the initial function (a gaussian function).
But when i try to plot it:
Plot3D[s[x, t] /. sol, {x, 0, 1}, {y, 0, Automatic}]
to reproduce the Figure 1 plot in the paper above i have a lot of errors and i don't understand why.
Moreover i found this Matlab code that reproduce a diffusion type equation with NO boundaries that works good but in which i can't understand how to change the equation itself to reproduce the one in eq. (2.10) of the paper above.
numx = 101; %number of grid points in x
numt = 2000; %number of time steps to be iterated
dx = 1/(numx - 1);
dt = 0.00005;
x = 0:dx:1; %vector of x values, to be used for plotting
C = zeros(numx,numt); %initialize everything to zero
%specify initial conditions
t(1) = 0; %t=0
mu = 0.5;
sigma = 0.05;
for i=1:numx
C(i,1) = exp(-(x(i)-mu)^2/(2*sigma^2)) / sqrt(2*pi*sigma^2);
end
%iterate difference equations
for j=1:numt
t(j+1) = t(j) + dt;
for i=2:numx-1
C(i,j+1) = C(i,j) + (dt/dx^2)*(C(i+1,j) - 2*C(i,j) + C(i-1,j));
end
C(1,j+1) = C(2,j+1); %C(1,j+1) found from no-flux condition
C(numx,j+1) = C(numx-1,j+1); %C(numx,j+1) found from no-flux condition
end
figure(1);
hold on;
plot(x,C(:,1));
plot(x,C(:,11));
plot(x,C(:,101));
plot(x,C(:,1001));
plot(x,C(:,2001));
xlabel('x');
ylabel('c(x,t)');
Could someone help me please?
Thanks a lot.