Internal
problem
ID
[18247] Book
:
Elementary
Differential
Equations.
By
Thornton
C.
Fry.
D
Van
Nostrand.
NY.
First
Edition
(1929) Section
:
Chapter
IV.
Methods
of
solution:
First
order
equations.
section
33.
Problems
at
page
91 Problem
number
:
9
(a) Date
solved
:
Monday, December 23, 2024 at 09:19:12 PM CAS
classification
:
[_separable]
Solve
\begin{align*} v^{\prime }+\frac {2 v}{u}&=3 v \end{align*}
We now need to find the singular solutions, these are found by finding for what values \(g(v)\) is
zero, since we had to divide by this above. Solving \(g(v)=0\) or \(v=0\) for \(v\) gives
\begin{align*} v&=0 \end{align*}
Now we go over each such singular solution and check if it verifies the ode itself and
any initial conditions given. If it does not then the singular solution will not be
used.
Therefore the solutions found are
\begin{align*} \ln \left (v\right ) = 3 u +\ln \left (\frac {1}{u^{2}}\right )+c_{1}\\ v = 0 \end{align*}
Solving for \(v\) gives
\begin{align*}
v &= 0 \\
v &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{1}}}{u^{2}} \\
\end{align*}
Summary of solutions found
\begin{align*}
v &= 0 \\
v &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{1}}}{u^{2}} \\
\end{align*}
Solved as first order homogeneous class D2 ode
Time used: 0.127 (sec)
Applying change of variables \(v = u \left (u \right ) u\), then the ode becomes
\begin{align*} u^{\prime }\left (u \right ) u +3 u \left (u \right ) = 3 u \left (u \right ) u \end{align*}
Which is now solved The ode \(u^{\prime }\left (u \right ) = \frac {3 u \left (u \right ) \left (u -1\right )}{u}\) is separable as it can be written as
\begin{align*} u^{\prime }\left (u \right )&= \frac {3 u \left (u \right ) \left (u -1\right )}{u}\\ &= f(u) g(u) \end{align*}
Where
\begin{align*} f(u) &= \frac {3 u -3}{u}\\ g(u) &= u \end{align*}
Integrating gives
\begin{align*} \int { \frac {1}{g(u)} \,du} &= \int { f(u) \,du}\\ \int { \frac {1}{u}\,du} &= \int { \frac {3 u -3}{u} \,du}\\ \ln \left (u \left (u \right )\right )&=3 u +\ln \left (\frac {1}{u^{3}}\right )+c_{1} \end{align*}
We now need to find the singular solutions, these are found by finding for what values \(g(u)\) is
zero, since we had to divide by this above. Solving \(g(u)=0\) or \(u=0\) for \(u \left (u \right )\) gives
\begin{align*} u \left (u \right )&=0 \end{align*}
Now we go over each such singular solution and check if it verifies the ode itself and
any initial conditions given. If it does not then the singular solution will not be
used.
Therefore the solutions found are
\begin{align*} \ln \left (u \left (u \right )\right ) = 3 u +\ln \left (\frac {1}{u^{3}}\right )+c_{1}\\ u \left (u \right ) = 0 \end{align*}
Solving for \(u \left (u \right )\) gives
\begin{align*}
u \left (u \right ) &= 0 \\
u \left (u \right ) &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{1}}}{u^{3}} \\
\end{align*}
Converting \(u \left (u \right ) = 0\) back to \(v\) gives
\begin{align*} v = 0 \end{align*}
Converting \(u \left (u \right ) = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{1}}}{u^{3}}\) back to \(v\) gives
\begin{align*} v = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{1}}}{u^{2}} \end{align*}
Summary of solutions found
\begin{align*}
v &= 0 \\
v &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{1}}}{u^{2}} \\
\end{align*}
We assume there exists a function \(\phi \left ( x,y\right ) =c\) where \(c\) is constant, that
satisfies the ode. Taking derivative of \(\phi \) w.r.t. \(x\) gives
But since \(\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial x\partial y}=\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial y\partial x}\) then for the above to be valid, we require that
If the above condition is satisfied,
then the original ode is called exact. We still need to determine \(\phi \left ( x,y\right ) \) but at least we know
now that we can do that since the condition \(\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial x\partial y}=\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial y\partial x}\) is satisfied. If this condition is not
satisfied then this method will not work and we have to now look for an integrating
factor to force this condition, which might or might not exist. The first step is
to write the ODE in standard form to check for exactness, which is
Since \(\frac {\partial M}{\partial v} \neq \frac {\partial N}{\partial u}\), then the ODE is not exact. Since the ODE is not exact, we will try to find an
integrating factor to make it exact. Let
\begin{align*} \mu &= e^{-3 u +2 \ln \left (u \right ) } \\ &= u^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-3 u} \end{align*}
\(M\) and \(N\) are multiplied by this integrating factor, giving new \(M\) and new \(N\) which are called \(\overline {M}\) and \(\overline {N}\)
for now so not to confuse them with the original \(M\) and \(N\).
\begin{align*} \overline {M} &=\mu M \\ &= u^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-3 u}\left (\frac {2 v}{u}-3 v\right ) \\ &= -v \left (3 u -2\right ) u \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 u} \end{align*}
Where \(f(u)\) is used for the constant of integration since \(\phi \) is a function
of both \(u\) and \(v\). Taking derivative of equation (3) w.r.t \(u\) gives
\begin{align*}
\tag{4} \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial u} &= 2 v u \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 u}-3 v \,u^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-3 u}+f'(u) \\
&=-v \left (3 u -2\right ) u \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 u}+f'(u) \\
\end{align*}
But equation (1) says that \(\frac {\partial \phi }{\partial u} = -v \left (3 u -2\right ) u \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 u}\).
Therefore equation (4) becomes
\begin{equation}
\tag{5} -v \left (3 u -2\right ) u \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 u} = -v \left (3 u -2\right ) u \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 u}+f'(u)
\end{equation}
Solving equation (5) for \( f'(u)\) gives
\[ f'(u) = 0 \]
Therefore
\[ f(u) = c_{1} \]
Where
\(c_{1}\) is constant of integration. Substituting this result for \(f(u)\) into equation (3) gives
\(\phi \)
\[
\phi = v \,u^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-3 u}+ c_{1}
\]
But since \(\phi \) itself is a constant function, then let \(\phi =c_{2}\) where \(c_{2}\) is new constant and
combining \(c_{1}\) and \(c_{2}\) constants into the constant \(c_{1}\) gives the solution as
\[
c_{1} = v \,u^{2} {\mathrm e}^{-3 u}
\]
Solving for \(v\) gives
\begin{align*}
v &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u} c_{1}}{u^{2}} \\
\end{align*}
Summary of solutions found
\begin{align*}
v &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u} c_{1}}{u^{2}} \\
\end{align*}
Substituting the above solution in the anstaz (1E,2E) (using \(1\) as arbitrary value for any
unknown in the RHS) gives
\begin{align*}
\xi &= 0 \\
\eta &= v \\
\end{align*}
The next step is to determine the canonical coordinates \(R,S\). The
canonical coordinates map \(\left ( u,v\right ) \to \left ( R,S \right )\) where \(\left ( R,S \right )\) are the canonical coordinates which make the original ode
become a quadrature and hence solved by integration.
The characteristic pde which is used to find the canonical coordinates is
The above comes from the requirements that \(\left ( \xi \frac {\partial }{\partial u} + \eta \frac {\partial }{\partial v}\right ) S(u,v) = 1\). Starting with the first pair of ode’s in (1)
gives an ode to solve for the independent variable \(R\) in the canonical coordinates, where \(S(R)\). Since
\(\xi =0\) then in this special case
\begin{align*} R = u \end{align*}
\(S\) is found from
\begin{align*} S &= \int { \frac {1}{\eta }} dy\\ &= \int { \frac {1}{v}} dy \end{align*}
Which results in
\begin{align*} S&= \ln \left (v \right ) \end{align*}
Now that \(R,S\) are found, we need to setup the ode in these coordinates. This is done by
evaluating
Substituting all the above in (2) and simplifying gives the ode in canonical coordinates.
\begin{align*} \frac {dS}{dR} &= \frac {3 u -2}{u}\tag {2A} \end{align*}
We now need to express the RHS as function of \(R\) only. This is done by solving for \(u,v\) in terms of
\(R,S\) from the result obtained earlier and simplifying. This gives
\begin{align*} \frac {dS}{dR} &= \frac {3 R -2}{R} \end{align*}
The above is a quadrature ode. This is the whole point of Lie symmetry method. It converts
an ode, no matter how complicated it is, to one that can be solved by integration when the
ode is in the canonical coordiates \(R,S\).
Since the ode has the form \(\frac {d}{d R}S \left (R \right )=f(R)\), then we only need to integrate \(f(R)\).
\begin{align*} \int {dS} &= \int {\frac {3 R -2}{R}\, dR}\\ S \left (R \right ) &= 3 R -2 \ln \left (R \right ) + c_{2} \end{align*}
To complete the solution, we just need to transform the above back to \(u,v\) coordinates. This
results in
\begin{align*} \ln \left (v\right ) = 3 u -2 \ln \left (u \right )+c_{2} \end{align*}
Which gives
\begin{align*} v = \frac {{\mathrm e}^{3 u +c_{2}}}{u^{2}} \end{align*}
The following diagram shows solution curves of the original ode and how they transform in
the canonical coordinates space using the mapping shown.