Hi
I only provide you with the most important part I have developed. Let me know if you find something wrong. (After the formula (11) there is still some simple calculation to do)
Greetings FM.
Thanks!
But show please the analytical view of the wolf (or борзая) tracing curve!
One Russian article with the formula is here
PS Greyhound (русская псовая борзая) is the only breed of dogs that is bred in Russia:
One interesting problem for an analytical solution - what is the formula of this closed curve?
@ValeryOchkov wrote:
Is there an ODE for this case?
Sure! And its the very same no matter what the path of the rabbit is.
Its always
F'/|F'|=(R-F)/|R-F|
where F and R are the vectors to the fox resp. the rabbit.
And if k is the ratio v.fox:f.rabbit, we have |F'|=k*|R'|.
Unfortunately Mathcad does not solve ODEs with vector functions, so we have to split the vector in its components:
And of course you can easily change the Rabbit's path to a cardiode, if you like.
You may try to create an animation, where the rabbit (and so the fox) move at constant speed.
I als leave the analytical/symbolical solution up to you 😉
@ValeryOchkov wrote:
Thanks, Werner!
Why the velosity of the Fox is not constant?
Because the velocity of the rabbit is not constant 😉 The fox's speed is always 70% (I think thats the value I had chosen) of the rabbit's speed.
And the rabbit's speed is not constant, because the parameter t used in defining the rabbits path is not (proportional to) the arc length of the cardioide :
In case of the circular rabbit path the parameter t is proportional to the arc length and with the radius=1 it actually IS the arc length.
Here's an animation with constant speed, doesn't look much better, though.
But we can see that the red rabbit can change direction lightning quick.
@ValeryOchkov wrote:
I look and look at this animation and I expect that the hare will still run away from the wolf into the forest...
The hare has an afterburner. The hare turns it on when the distance to the wolf becomes less than 300 m. Therefore, the hare can be saved in the forest from the wolf!
Can you solve this problem analytical?
And the second (new, fresh) problem! The hare does not run in a straight line, but along a circular arc!
I suppose that this should rather be an answer to my post here: https://community.ptc.com/t5/PTC-Mathcad/Wolf-and-hare-one-old-problem-with-simple-Mathcad-solution/m-p/743860/highlight/true#M196892 , which was mainly about your request to see how to make the characters move with constant speeds.
@ValeryOchkov wrote:
Thanks, Werner!
But.
We are creating a differential equation. We cannot solve it analytically and we solve it numerically using one of the difference schemes. Would not it be easier to solve the problem directly with the help of a difference scheme without making a differential equation?
I may remind you that your question was this:
And yes, of course there is one.
BTW, I find it more natural and easier to set up an ODE in its natural notation and let it then solve by a reliable tool. Unfortunately Mathcad does not provide a tool to solve an ODE with vector functions, so the notation had to be more elaborate than normally necessary.
And, who knows, some day a tool will be able to solve the ode symbolically 😉 We know that this sure will not be Mathcad/Prime, though.
Or do you already have a proof that the ODE is not solvable symbolically?
