How to plot intermediate variables of a function used by ode45 solver
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Sir, I am calling ode45 for integrating a diff equation say x'=(1/(H))*(2x)
Main Program:
x0=0.1; final_time=1; [t,x]=ode45(@myfunc,[0,final_time],x0);% ODE Call plot(t(:,1),x(:,1))% plotting the state variable main ends
Function Program:
function dv=myfunc(t,x) H=1.0; Te=2*x(1);% intermediate calculations/variables for my differential equations %The Differential Equation dv=[(1/(H))*(Te)];
But i want to plot the intermediate variables say Te in this case.But ode returns t,x alone.How to plot the intermediate variables that was used in the integration process.
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  Jan
      
      
 on 29 Jul 2013
        You can prepare your function such, that it replies the wanted value according to a special trigger method and accepts vectors as input also:
function dv = myfunc(t, x, flag)
H  = 1.0;
Te = 2 * x(:, 1)
dv = Te ./ H;      % Btw, No addition square brackets
if nargin == 3
  dv = Te;
end
Now run the integration at first:
[t,x] = ode45(@myfunc,[0,final_time],x0);
and obtain the internal variable afterwards:
Te = myFunc(t, x, 'flag');
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  Shashank Prasanna
    
 on 29 Jul 2013
        You can define an output function (outputfcn) that will be called after each iteration.
you can specify that in the options structure. In your custom output function you can use a plot command with a hold on in order to plot all you intermediate values.
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