Jon,

  If you are looking for a standard numerical solution, here are
is the standard Runge-Kutta approach, translated to J from Fortran:
    http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/runge_kutta.ijs
and for stiff diff-eq's:
    http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/stiff.ijs
As applied to the classic astrophysics problem of at polytropic star:
    http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/polytrope.ijs
    http://www.astro.umd.edu/~jph/iso_sphere.ijs

                                        Patrick

On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Jon Hough wrote:
I have looked through Jsoftware pages but cannot find explicit idea for solving 
linear ODEs in J.
This page  http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/MSLDE.htm  has some overall 
information, but not specific J code.
My attempt at some solution follows:e.g. Solve 7y'' -3y' - 2y = 0
Solution (of sorts):
S =: p. 7 _3 _2 NB. consider the ODE problem as a polynomial
S =: >1{S NB. Get and unbox the two solutions.
F =: 2 : 'u@:(n&*)' NB. conjunction for exponentiation
Solve =:  +/@: (^ F S) NB. returns verb as a (not the) solution to the original 
ODE.

So Solve is the solution, or at least a solution. In the above case solve is

+/@:(^@:(_2.76556443707463728 1.26556443707463728&*))


Solve 0


returns 2.


This is as far as I have got, and I already notice several issues.


1. In Solve, there is no way to show general solutions of the form 
A*exp(ax)+B*exp(bx) where A and B are arbitrary constants.
2. My approach needs to be modified slightly for repeated solutions to the 
polynoimial.




Is there any work already done on this? I can't imagine I'm the first to think 
of attempting this.


Regards,
Jon


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