I'm using scipy.integrate's odeint function to evaluate the time evolution of to find solutions to the equation
$$ \dot x = -\frac{f(x)}{g(x)}, $$
where $f$ and $g$ are both functions of $x$. $f,g$ are given by series of the form
$$ f(x) = x(1 + \sum_k b_k x^{k/2}) $$
$$ g(x) = 1 + \sum_k a_k (1 + k/2) x^{k/2}. $$
All positive initial values for $x$ should result in the solution blowing up in time, but they aren't...well, not always.
The coefficients $a_n, b_n$ are long polynomials, where $b_n$ is dependent on $x$ in a certain way, and $a_n$ is dependent on several terms being held constant.
Depending on the way I compute $g(x)$, I get very different behavior.
The first way I tried is as follows. 'a' and 'b' are 1x8 and 1x9 numpy arrays. Note that in the function g(x, a), a is multiplied by gterms in line 3, and does not appear in line 2.
def g(x, a):
gterms = [(0.5*k + 1.) * x**(0.5*k) for k in range( len(a) )]
return = 1. + np.sum(a*gterms)
def rhs(u,t)
x = u
a, b = An(), Bn(x) #An() and Bn(x) are functions that return an array of coefficients
return -f(x, b)/g(x, a)
t = np.linspace(.,.,.)
solution = odeint(rhs, <some initial value>, t)
The second way was this:
def g(x, a):
gterms = [(0.5*k + 1.) * a[k] * x**(0.5*k) for k in range( len(a) )]
return = 1. + np.sum(gterms)
def rhs(u,t)
x = u
a, b = An(), Bn(x) #An() and Bn(x) are functions that return an array of coefficients
return -f(x, b)/g(x, a)
t = np.linspace(.,.,.)
solution = odeint(rhs, <some initial value>, t)
Note the difference: using the first method, I stuck the array 'a' into the sum in line 3, whereas using the second method, I suck the values of 'a' into the list 'gterms' in line 2 instead.
The first method gives the expected behavior: solutions blow up positive x. However, the second method does not do this. The second method gives a bifurcation for some x0 > 0 that acts as a source. For initial conditions greater than x0, solutions blow up as expected, but initial conditions less than x0 have the solutions tending to 0 very slowly.
Something else of note: in the rhs function, if I change it from
def rhs(u,t)
x = u
...
return .
to def rhs(u,t) x = u[0] ... return .
the same exact change occurs
So my question is: what is the difference between the two different methods I used? I can't tell for the life of me what is actually going on here. Sorry for being so verbose.
