I have to solve numerically a system of two differential equations, one with and the other initial condition to final condition. I tried the method called "shooting in" vain.
Hi Yannick. You can use "shotting methods". It's explained in the book Applied Numerical Methods with MATLAB for Engineers - Steven Chapra, Chapter 24 (Boundary Value Problems). Another form of solution is to use finite difference methods, explained too in the same book Chapter 24.
Hi Yannick, if you want to use fast and reliable routine to implement in Matlab a shooting algorithm you can resort to the sundialsTB interface to the SUNDIALS suite (https://computation.llnl.gov/casc/sundials/main.html).
For readers that are mathematic fans, here is an example of solving a rather stiff BVP involving 3 coupled ODEs (for the velocity field using a shooting method :
I think that these problems are (mathematical) equivalent to Boundary Value Problems (BVPs). So you can use any method for solving BVP like FDM or FEM.