Assuming I have the following four equations:
- cos(x)/x = a
- cos(y)/y = b
- a + b = 1
- c sinc(x) = d sinc(y)
for unknown variables x, y, a
and b
. Note that cos(x)/x=a
has multiple solutions. Similar goes for variable y
. I am only interested in x
and y
values, which are first positive roots (if that matters).
You can safely assume a, b, c
and d
are known real constants, all positive.
In Mathematica the code to solve this would look something like:
FindRoot[{Cos[x]/x == 0.2 a + 0.1,
Cos[y]/y == 0.2 b + 0.1,
a + b == 1.0,
1.03*Sinc[x] == Sinc[y]*1.02},
{{x, .1}, {y, .1}, {a, .3}, {b, .1}}]
which as a result returns
{x -> 1.31636, y -> 1.29664, a -> 0.456034, b -> 0.543966}
While this was quite easy, I have no idea how to do anything like that in python. So if somebody could kinda guide me (or simply show me how) to solve this, I would highly appreciate it.
You can use root
:
import numpy as np
from scipy.optimize import root
def your_funcs(X):
x, y, a, b = X
f = [np.cos(x) / x - 0.2 * a - 0.1,
np.cos(y) / y - 0.2 * b - 0.1,
a + b - 1,
1.03 * np.sinc(x) - 1.02 * np.sinc(y)]
return f
sol2 = root(your_funcs, [0.1, 0.1, 0.3, 0.1])
print(sol2.x)
that will print
[ 1.30301572 1.30987969 0.51530547 0.48469453]
Your functions have to be defined in a way that they evaluate to 0, e.g. a + b - 1
instead of a + b = 1
.
A quick check:
print(your_funcs(sol2.x))
gives
[-1.9356960478944529e-11, 1.8931356482454476e-11, 0.0, -4.1039033282785908e-11]
So, the solution should be ok (please note that e-11
is basically 0).
Alternatively, you can also use fsolve
:
from scipy.optimize import fsolve
sol3 = fsolve(your_funcs, [0.1, 0.1, 0.3, 0.1])
which gives you the same result:
[ 1.30301572 1.30987969 0.51530547 0.48469453]
You can pass additional arguments using the args
argument:
def your_funcs(X, fac_a, fac_b):
x, y, a, b = X
f = [np.cos(x) / x - fac_a * a - 0.1,
np.cos(y) / y - fac_b * b - 0.1,
a + b - 1,
1.03 * np.sinc(x) - 1.02 * np.sinc(y)]
return f
sol2 = root(your_funcs, [0.1, 0.1, 0.3, 0.1], args=(0.2, 0.2))
print(sol2.x)
which gives you the "old" output:
[ 1.30301572 1.30987969 0.51530547 0.48469453]
If you run
sol2 = root(your_funcs, [0.1, 0.1, 0.3, 0.1], args=(0.4, 0.2))
print(sol2.x)
then you receive:
[ 1.26670224 1.27158794 0.34096159 0.65903841]