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Alternatively, Matlab s built-in function norm can be used to determine normalisation coefficients and perform the same task. An example for column-wise normalisation of a matrix X with orthogonal columns is given below. It is worthwhile to compare X with equation (2.15) the subspace command can be used to determine the angle between the vectors (in rad) and reconfirm orthogonality. ... 

MATLAB has a built-in root finder for scalar equations f(x) = 0 in one real variable x that are in standard form. The built-in MATLAB function is fzero. The use of fzero hinges on a user-defined function, such as the function f inside the following fzero tester, called fzerotryl, that we apply to our previously studied third degree polynomial. 

We note that fzerotryl is a MATLAB function m file that is stored in its folder with the extension. m as fzerotryl.m. Our program code is annotated with comments following the % symbol. Anything that follows after a % symbol on a line of code is not executed in MATLAB. More on MATLAB files, their storage, creation, etc. is given in Section 1.2.5. Specific built-in MATLAB functions and their use, such as fzero in the code below, should always be scrutinized by our students for their input/output syntax etc. using the built-in help MATLAB command help fzero for example. 

MATLAB m and Other Files and Built-in MATLAB Functions... 

In the previous sections we have used MATLAB commands that were typed in on the desktop command line, as well as MATLAB commands that invoke special stored MATLAB files, called m files. When starting to work with MATLAB, we advise our users to create a special folder for their personal MATLAB m files once and to continue to use this folder to store personal m files. To access the stored m files from the MATLAB desktop, the user has to point the small desktop window called Current Directory to the personal m file folder. Then all stored m files, as well as all built in MATLAB functions can be accessed, called upon, and used from the command line. All stored personal... 

The last part of this section lists a few standard MATLAB operations, functions, and commands, collected into groups, together with short descriptions. This may help our readers to more easily find and use built-in MATLAB functions in their own MATLAB program codes. Please note that our MATLAB function descriptions below are very few and very short by necessity. The user should use the help. . . command to find the full length MATLAB reference guide entry for each MATLAB function when the need arises. This will help our readers use the full power and functionality of MATLAB commands and will enable them to browse for and find related built-in MATLAB functions. 

The printed MATLAB Function Reference Guide book consists of three volumes amounting to about 2,000 pages that list every one of about 1,000 built-in MATLAB functions. 

The MATLAB codes printed in this book give our readers a varied and solid introduction into the above and many other built-in MATLAB functions, as well as into their functionality. 

Compared to solveadiabxy. m for the adiabatic CSTR case in Section 3.1, the above MATLAB function solveNadiabxy. m depends on the two extra parameters Kc and yc that were defined following equation (3.9). It uses MATLAB s built-in root finder fzero.m. As explained in Section 3.1, such root-finding algorithms are not very reliable for finding multiple steady states near the borders of the multiplicity region. The reason - as pointed out earlier in Section 1.2 - is geometric the points of intersection of the linear and exponential parts of equations such as (3.16) are very shallow, and their values are very hard to pin down via either a Newton or a bisection method, especially near the bifurcation points. 

Here are our MATLAB implementations of the four dimensional first-order DE (5.41) in dydx, and of its boundary conditions (5.42) in Rand. These two auxiliary functions dydx and Rand are called upon in MATLAB s built-in BVP solver bvp4c and in our modified BVP solver bvp4cf singhouseqr. m. 

Here is a simple MATLAB function that performs this task by solving AX = B via MATLAB s built-in backslash linear equations solver. 

Hint Linearize the equations and find the associated matrix eigenvalues by using the built-in MATLAB function eig.]... 

The purpose of this appendix is to provide a viable code to integrate the BzzMath library into Madab. The guidelines for implementing a MEX function are available to allow user-created functions and hbraries written in C++ (or Fortran) to be used into Matlab as built-in functions. 

MATLAB offers a large selection of built-in functions that you can use to analyze data. As we discussed in the previous chapter, by built-in funaions we mean standard functions such as the sine or cosine of an angle, as well as formulas that calculate the total value, the average value, or the standard deviation of a set of data points. The MATLAB functions are available in various categories, including mathematical, trigonometric, statistical, and logical functions. In this chapter, we will discuss some of the common functions. MATLAB offers a Help menu that you can use to obtain information on various commands and functions. 

The following set of values will be used to introduce some of MATLAB s built-in functions. Mass = [102 115 99 106 103 95 97 102 98 96]. When studying Table 15.7, the results of the executed functions are shown under the Result of the Example column. 

In MATLAB, the built-in convhull () and convhullnO functions may be used to compute the convex hull of a set of points. The SciPy Python package is used extensively in the scientific community, containing the scipy. spatial. ConvexHull () function that may be used to compute convex hulls. 

MATLAB has its own built-in function fzero for root finding. The statement fzero file nam jc, ) finds the root of the function/(x) introduced in the user-defined MATLAB function The second argument jt , is a starting guess. Starting with... 

Method of Solution Eq. (1.67) is applied to calculate the correction vector in each iteration and Eq. (1.68) is used to estimate the new relaxed variables. The built-in MATLAB function inv is used to invert the Jacobian matrix. 

The built-in MATLAB function diag(x) creates a diagonal matrix whose main diagonal elements are the components of the vector x. If jr is a matrix, diagix) is a column vector fonned from the elements of the diagonal of x. 

Next in the function are several sections dealing with building the matrix of coefficients and the vector of constants according to what is discussed in the method of solution. Finally, the function calculates all the u values by matrix inversion method using the built-in MATLAB function inv. The outputs of elUptic.m are the vectors of jc and y and the matrix of values. 

In MATLAB the built-in function mean x) calculates the mean value of the vector x [Eq. (7.18)]. Ifx is a matrix, mean(x) returns a vector of mean values of each column. 

In MATLAB, the built-in function cov x,y) calculates the covariance of the vectors of the same length x and y [Eq. (7.30)]. If x is a matrix where each row is an observation and each column a variable, cov x) returns the covariance matrix. 

It is important to mention that the main purpose of this book is to teach the student numerical methods and problem solving, rather than to be a MATLAB manual. In order to assure that the student develops a thorough understanding of the numerical methods and their implementation, new MATLAB functions have been written to demonstrate each of the numerical methods covered in this text. Admittedly, MATLAB already has its own built-in functions for some of the methods introduced in this book. We mention and discuss the built-in functions, whenever they exist. 

It may call thcfunction.m that contains the specific equations to be solved. It may also call any of the built-in MATLAB functions. The results of the method may be printed out (or plotted) here, if they are generic. 

The built-in MATLAB function ode45 uses a Runge-Kutta method and a variable time step. Based on how rapidly the solution functions are changing, the time step is altered to improve accuracy. The user need not be aware of the details of the algorithm, but when it is necessary to know the number of time steps, it can be useful to call the function length, which is illustrated in the example problem below. 

A large number of chemical/biological processes will be presented, modeled and efficient numerical techniques will be developed and programmed using MATLAB 2. This is a sophisticated numerical software package. MATLAB is powerful numerically through its built-in functions and it allows us to easily develop and evaluate complicated numerical codes that fulfill very specialized tasks. Our solution techniques will be developed and discussed from both the chemical/biological point of view and the numerical point of view. 

MATLAB comes as one main body of built-in functions and codes, and there are many additional specialized MATLAB toolboxes for various applications. As this book is primarily directed towards undergraduate and beginning graduate students, we have restricted ourselves deliberately to using the main body of MATLAB only in our codes and none of its many toolboxes. 

In this book we shall use MATLAB codes and explain more involved features of MAT-LAB as we encounter them. MATLAB has a built-in help menu typing help format at the prompt, or help, for example, will show the syntax and variations of these two commands format and backslash . Whenever a student encounters a MATLAB command that is not self explanatory, we suggest using this built-in help function of MATLAB. 

Method used MATLAB s fzero built-in root finding function... 

Note that the above program works for both endothermic reactions (/ < 0) and exothermic reactions (/ > 0) and that only exothermic reactions can have multiple steady states. The built-in MATLAB root finder fzero finds the roots of a function / from a starting guess a if we call fzero( /,a,.. . ), i.e., if we attach the function handle to / and follow this with the appropriate list of parameters in MATLAB. 

Note that in case of multiplicity different starting values for 1C, Cx, Cs, and Cp will lead to different stable steady states. MATLAB itself does not include a built-in Newton method solver since the main work is to find the Jacobian DF by partially differentiating the component functions /j explicitly by hand for each separate nonlinear system of equations. 

Stand-alone programs carrying out FAST-MCD and FAST-LTS can be downloaded from the Web site http //www.agoras.ua.ac.be/, as well as MATLAB versions. The MCD is available in the packages S-PLUS and R as the built-in function cov.mcd, and it has also been included in SAS Version 11 and SAS/IML Version 7. These packages all provide the one-step reweighed MCD estimates. The LTS is... 

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