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Modeling Tools for Environmental Engineers and Scientists

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Figure 3.11 Runge-Kutta method in Excel ® .3.3.3 SYSTEMS OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONSSystems of coupled ODEs are rather common in many environmental systems<strong>and</strong> several examples will be considered in detail in the following chapters.The Runge-Kutta method can be extended to systems of ODEs as well as tohigher-order differential equations. Higher-order equations have to be reduced tofirst-order equations by introducing new variables be<strong>for</strong>e applying the Runge-Kutta method. For example, consider the second-order differential equation:2 yd d x2 = g x,y, d ydx(3.27)The order of the above can be reduced from 2 to 1 by introducingz = d ydzd whereby = dxd x d x2 (3.28)2 y© 2002 by CRC Press LLC

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