I want to know how to solve fourth order differential equation in sagemath. Question which i actually want to solve is Euler-bernoulli equation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%E2%80%93Bernoulli_beam_theory I searched a lot about solving this, but didn't succeed. Does anyone know how to solve this equation. Whether this equation is solved in parts by taking second order derivative two times or directly. Please give any link that shows wonderful working of sagemath regarding 4th order differential equation. I tried this:
var('k1,k2') y=function('y',x) w=function('w',x) q=function('q',x) var('x') de=diff(y,x,x)==q ##here i put (d^2/dx^2)(w)=y , thus (d^4/dx^4)(w)= (d^2/dx^2)(y) res=desolve(de,dvar=y,ivar=x) e=diff(w,x,x)-res==0 res1=desolve(res,dvar=w,ivar=x,contrib_ode=True) ## As solution of above will give y and again i put y= (d^2/dx^2)(w) i.e substitute back print res1 print res NotImplementedError: Maxima was unable to solve this ODE. Please help. -- Priyanka Kapoor priyankacool10.wordpress.com Linux User Group, Ludhiana -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org