MATLAB Program for Forward Euler's Method

% Forward Euler's method

 % Example 1:  Approximate the solution to the initial-value problem

 % dy/dt=e^t ; 0<=t<=2 ; y(0)=1;

 % Example 2:  Approximate the solution to the initial-value problem

 % dy/dt=y-t^2+1 ; 0<=t<=2 ; y(0)=0.5;

  %f = @(t,y) (0*y+exp(t));   % Example 1

 f = @(t,y) (y-t^2+1);      % Example 2

 a = input('Enter left end ponit, a:  ');

 b = input('Enter right end point, b:  ');

 n = input('Enter no. of subintervals, n: ');               

 alpha = input('Enter the initial condition, alpha:  ');

 h = (b-a)/n;                                               

 t=[a zeros(1,n)];

 w=[alpha zeros(1,n)];

 for i = 1:n+1

 t(i+1)=t(i)+h;

 w(i+1)=w(i)+h*f(t(i),w(i));

 fprintf('%5.4f  %11.8f\n', t(i), w(i));

 plot(t(i),w(i),'m*'); grid on;

 xlabel('t values'); ylabel('w values');

 hold on;

 end

OUTPUT: 
>> forwardmodifiedEulermethod
Enter left end ponit, a:  0
Enter right end point, b:  2
Enter no. of subintervals, n: 10
Enter the initial condition, alpha:  1
0.0000   1.00000000
0.2000   1.40000000
0.4000   1.87200000
0.6000   2.41440000
0.8000   3.02528000
1.0000   3.70233600
1.2000   4.44280320
1.4000   5.24336384
1.6000   6.10003661
1.8000   7.00804393
2.0000   7.96165272

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