piecewise function in ODEs

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Samuel Coeyman
Samuel Coeyman on 17 Apr 2019
Commented: Star Strider on 17 Apr 2019
Does anybody have experience using piecewise fxn inside of ODE solvers, such as ode23?
Thanks!
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Star Strider
Star Strider on 17 Apr 2019
The best way to integrate a piecewise function is to integrate the first region, stop the solver, use the last values of the integration as the new initial conditions, then integrate the second region, and continue until you have integrated the entire function.
The reason is that the function may not be differentiable across the abrupt changes between the regions, giving unreliable results.

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