mus


mus a FORTRAN77 code which implements the multiple shooting method for two point boundary value problems, for linear or nonlinear cases, by Robert Mattheij and G Staarink.

The two point boundary value problem is posed on an interval [a,b]. Over this interval, the solution y(x) satisfies some first-order differential equation. At the endpoints, some conditions may be imposed on some of the values of y.

Cases in which the differential equation is of higher order are reduced to a vector of first order equations in the standard way.

The routine MUSL() is suitable for problems in which the underlying differential equation is linear, having a form such as

        y' = A(x) y(x) + q(x)
      
with linear boundary constraints:
        Ba y(a) + Bb y(b) = beta
      

The routine MUSN() handles the more general case where the differential equation is nonlinear:

        y' = f(x,y)
      
and the boundary constraints may be nonlinear as well:
        g ( y(a), y(b) ) = 0
      

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

mus is available in a FORTRAN77 version.

Related Data and Programs:

mus_test

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Author:

Robert Mattheij, G Staarink

Reference:

  1. Uri Ascher, Robert Mattheij, Robert Russell,
    Numerical Solution of Boundary Value Problems for Ordinary Differential Equations,
    Prentice Hall, 1988,
    ISBN: 0-13-627266-5,
    LC: QA379.A83.
  2. Michael Hanke, Rene Lamour, Renate Winkler,
    The program system RWA for the solution of two-point boundary-value problems: foundations, algorithms, comparisons,
    Seminarberichte 67,
    Sektion Mathematik, Humboldt University.

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Last revised on 23 October 2023.