<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Differential Equations - GNU Octave</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="GNU Octave"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="prev" href="Numerical-Integration.html#Numerical-Integration" title="Numerical Integration"> <link rel="next" href="Optimization.html#Optimization" title="Optimization"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Differential-Equations"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Optimization.html#Optimization">Optimization</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Numerical-Integration.html#Numerical-Integration">Numerical Integration</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="index.html#Top">Top</a> <hr> </div> <h2 class="chapter">24 Differential Equations</h2> <p>Octave has built-in functions for solving ordinary differential equations, and differential-algebraic equations. All solvers are based on reliable ODE routines written in Fortran. <ul class="menu"> <li><a accesskey="1" href="Ordinary-Differential-Equations.html#Ordinary-Differential-Equations">Ordinary Differential Equations</a> <li><a accesskey="2" href="Differential_002dAlgebraic-Equations.html#Differential_002dAlgebraic-Equations">Differential-Algebraic Equations</a> </ul> <p><a name="index-differential-equations-2343"></a><a name="index-ODE-2344"></a><a name="index-DAE-2345"></a> </body></html>