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Solving Bernoulli's ODEs

 

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The general form of Bernoulli's equation is given by:

Bernoulli_ode := diff(y(x),x)+f(x)*y(x)+g(x)*y(x)^a;

Bernoulli_odeⅆⅆxyx+fxyx+gxyxa

(1)
  

where f(x) and g(x) are arbitrary functions, and a is a symbolic power. See Differentialgleichungen, by E. Kamke, p. 19. Basically, the method consists of making a change of variables, leading to a linear equation which can be solved in general manner. The transformation is given by the following:

Examples

withDEtools,odeadvisor

odeadvisor

(2)

odeadvisorBernoulli_ode

_Bernoulli

(3)

withPDEtools,dchange

dchange

(4)

ITRx=t,yx=ut11a

ITRx=t,yx=ut11a

(5)

and the ODE becomes

new_odedchangeITR,Bernoulli_ode,ut,t:

new_ode2solvenew_ode,diffut,t:

opfactorcombineexpandnew_ode2,power

ⅆⅆtut=1+agtuta1+aut11+aa+utft

(6)

This ODE can then be solved by dsolve. Afterwards, another change of variables will reintroduce the original variables x and y(x).

The present implementation of dsolve can arrive directly at a general solution for Bernoulli's equation:

ansdsolveBernoulli_ode

ansyx=ⅇfxⅆx1+aaⅇfxⅆxgxⅇfxⅆxaⅆx+c__1ⅇfxⅆxgxⅇfxⅆxaⅆx11+aⅇfxⅆxa1+a

(7)

See Also

DEtools

odeadvisor

dsolve

quadrature

linear

separable

Bernoulli

exact

homogeneous

homogeneousB

homogeneousC

homogeneousD

homogeneousG

Chini

Riccati

Abel

Abel2A

Abel2C

rational

Clairaut

dAlembert

sym_implicit

patterns

odeadvisor,types