function sol = exam2 % exam2, exam2f of tutorial. % Example 5 of D.R. Wille' and C.T.H. Baker, DELSOL-- % a numerical code for the solution of systems of delay- % differential equations, Appl. Numer. Math., 9 (1992) % 223-234. This is an example of a scalar equation that % exhibits chaotic behavior. Equation (7) of the paper % includes a parameter gamma, but no value is specified in % the example. A value of -1 gives qualitative agreement % with Fig. 3 of the paper. The length of the interval of % integration is also not given. Here an interval [0, 100] % is used; it is clearly shorter than that of the figure, % but the qualitative behavior is seen already. sol = dde23(@exam2f,2,0.5,[0, 100]); t = linspace(2,100,1000); y = ddeval(sol,t); ylag = ddeval(sol,t - 2); plot(y,ylag) title('Example 5 of Wille'' and Baker.') xlabel('y(t)'); ylabel('y(t-2)'); axis([0 1.5 0 1.5]) %======================================= function yp = exam2f(t,y,Z) yp = 2*Z/(1 + Z^9.65) - y;