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5-005-StiffDifferentialEquations-TechniqueNarrative
This material introduces the topic of ``stiffness'' for a system of ordinary differential equations (ODE's), through a series of examples. Stiffness is a property that a system of ODE's may posses that make it difficult to solve numerically.
Euler's method
explicit methods
implicit methods
stiff
sitffness
stiff differential equation
instability
Modeling Scenario
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3-091-SpringModeling-ModelingScenario
In this lab students will collect data on their spring mass systems and compare their empirical models to their theoretical ones—giving them an opportunity to actually test a model against data.
data
laboratory
LoggerPro
Vernier
mass-spring system
model validation
empirical model
theoretical model
Modeling Scenario
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6-006-ZombieGameHvZ-ModelingScenario
Invented in 2005, Humans vs. Zombies, or HvZ, is a game of tag, predominantly played at US college campuses. In this activity, students use systems of non-linear differential equations to model the HvZ game.
zombies
SIR models
Game
Modeling Scenario
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6-017-OncolyticViruses-ModelingScenario
Students explore oncolytic virotherapy using systems of differential equations and numerical simulations.
cancer
cancer-immune dynamics
immune suppressor drug
oncolytic virus
virotherapy
Technique Narrative
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1-009-Bifurcation-TechniqueNarrative
We lead students to investigate first-order differential equations that contain unknown parameters. Students discover what happens to the qualitative behavior of solutions to these equations as these parameters vary.
bifurcation
qualitative behavior
bifurcation diagram
Technique Narrative
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5-030-LinNonHomoSystemSol-TechniqueNarrative
We offer strategies for solving linear systems of nonhomogeneous differential equations using a conjectured solution strategy for a system of constant coefficient, linear, n
strategies
discovery learning
eigenvectors
eigenvalue
Modeling Scenario
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1-139-PlantsVsHerbivores-ModeliongScenario
In this activity, students will apply a variety of techniques for analyzing nonlinear systems (e.g., nullclines, linearization, and technologies for drawing phase portraits) to study plant-herbivore models.
ecology
nullclines
herbivore
plant-herbivore interactions
plant
linearization
Article or Presentation
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SIMIODE Spring 2024 Webinars - Insightmaker
We discuss the use of the FREE system dynamics software Insightmaker (https://insightmaker.com/) in a first course in Ordinary Differential Equations (with a modeling emphasis).
modeling
simulation
Software
python
systems
InsightMaker
flow
Category Theory
stock
stock-flow
Modeling Scenario
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7-011-CoupledSystemLaplace-ModelingScenario
Differential equations and Laplace transforms are an integral part of control problems in engineering systems. We consider a baby warming device.
transfer function
polycarbonate
baby heater
coupled system
heating
Technique Narrative
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5-010-MatrixExponential-TechniqueNarrative
The matrix exponential is a powerful computational and conceptual tool for analyzing systems of linear, constant coefficient, ordinary differential equations (ODE's). This narrative offers a quick introduction to the technique, with examples and...
matrix esponential
Putzer's Algorithm
diagonalization
eigenvalues
eigenvectors
Modeling Scenario
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6-016-PandemicModeling-ModelingScenario
The recent coronavirus outbreak has infected millions of people worldwide and spread to over 200 countries. How can we use differential equations to study the spread of coronavirus?
population dynamics
infectious disease
disease
Ebola
e
SIR models
COVID19
pandemic
epidemic
reproduction number
Modeling Scenario
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157
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6-018-ExploringSIRModel-ModelingScenario
Students will transform, solve, and interpret Susceptible Infected Recovered (SIR) models using systems of differential equation models. The project is progressively divided into three parts to understand, to apply, and to develop SIR models.
population dynamics
sensitivity
disease
SIR models
epidemic
rumors
Modeling Scenario
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3-060-DataToDifferentialEquation-ModelingScenario
Students use knowledge of second-order linear differential equations in conjunction with physical intuition of spring-mass systems to estimate the damping coefficient and spring constant from data.
Association & Data Fitting
mass
spring-mass system
spring\
total distance
numerical differentiation
Modeling Scenario
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6-007-FunctionsAndDerivativesInSIRModels-ModelingScenario
Given a system of differential equations, how do the solution graphs compare with the graphs of the differential equations? Students tackle this question using SIR models for well-known infectious diseases.
epidemiology
species interactions
derivatives
visualization
infection
SIR models
Law of Mass Action
Modeling Scenario
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149
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0
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6-011-HumansVsZombies-ModelingScenario
Students analyze the SIR differential equations model in the context of a zombie invasion of a human population. Students analyze a two equation system representing only two populations, humans and zombies and then recovered zombies.
zombies
infection
SIR models
Modeling Scenario
510
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306
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0
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6-020-AlgaePopulationSelf-Replenishment-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario investigates the massive algal blooms that struck Lake Chapala, Mexico, in 1994. A
algae
population
Mexico
qualitative
compartment
linearization
Jacobian
lak
nondimensionalization
pplane
Modeling Scenario
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221
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0
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6-029-TumorGrowth-ModelingScenario
This modeling scenario guides a student familiar with single ordinary differential equation (ODE) models towards the development of a more complex system of two ODEs for describing the evolution of tumor growth over time.
Pop_Growth Pilot
logistic
comparment
tumor
synthetic data
sum of squares error
Modeling Scenario
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374
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0
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6-065-InternetPlatformUsers-ModelingScenario
A model estimating the volume of users interacting through a two-sided Internet platform (allowing interaction of two types of users) will teach students how to analyze a 2-dimensional dynamical system.
dynamics
flow
conserved
fixed points
cyclet
internet platform
diverghence
Jacobian
attracting
repelling
nodes
stable
saddle
spiral
Modeling Scenario
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228
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0
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1-116-TropicalStormWindspeeds-ModelingScenario
We model the decay of tropical cyclone winds once a storm makes landfall. We use data from two recent storms from the National Hurricane Center to estimate parameters emanating from a differential equation using a first order exponential decay model.
hurricane
decay
tropical storm
cyclones
Modeling Scenario
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77
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0
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4-065-GasInjection-ModelingScenario
Students use programs (or create their own code) based on exponential box-scheme approximations for solving systems of nonlinear differential equations that contain small parameters for the highest derivative terms or singularities in boundary...
Prandtl-Blasius equations
boundary layer
gas injection
esponential box scheme
uniform convergence
FORTRAN
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