/* Runge Kutta algorithm for first-order differential equations*/ #include #define dist 0.5 /* stepsize in t */ #define MAX 4 /* max for t */ FILE *output; /* internal filename */ main() { double t, y; int j; double runge4(double x, double y, double step); /* Runge-Kutta function */ double f(double x, double y); /* function for derivative */ output=fopen ("runge.dat", "w"); /* external filename */ y=1; /* initial position */ fprintf(output, "0\t%f\n", y); for (j=1; j*dist<=MAX; j++) /* the time loop */ { t=j*dist; y=runge4(t, y, dist); fprintf(output, "%f\t%f\n", t, y); } fclose(output); } double runge4(double x, double y, double step) { double h=step/2.0, k1, k2, k3, k4; k1=step*f(x, y); k2=step*f(x+h, y+k1/2.0); k3=step*f(x+h, y+k2/2.0); k4=step*f(x+step, y+k3); return(y+(k1+2*k2+2*k3+k4)/6.0); } double f(double x, double y) { return(-y); }