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I just started taking a course in numerical methods and I have an assignment to code
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x(j) = ((b(j) - a(j,[1:j-1,j+1:n]) * x0([1:j-1,j+1:n])) / a(j,j)); %
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Answer by Bruno Pop-Stefanov  on 8 Oct 2014

1. Some feedback about your code

It's good practice to pre-allocate memory before a for loop. This is

actually what Code Analyzer suggests for variables x and x_ny. Since
you know that x will eventually contain n elements, I would add:

x = zeros(n,1);

before the first for loop. That way you can also control that x will be a
column vector (or a row vector if you use zeros(1,n)) and you do not
need to transpose x after the loop.

Same remark for x_ny. Add

x_ny = zeros(n,1);

before the second for loop.

You might actually be able to vectorize these for loops, if you find a
way to rewrite lines 4 and 10.

Here are some general advice for performance:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/techniques-for-
improving-performance.html

...and about vectorization in particular:

http://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/vectorization.html

2. About the matrix method

I am not familiar with the Jacobi method, but I would avoid using inv.
Calculating the inverse of a matrix numerically is a risky operation
when the matrix is badly conditioned. It's also slower and less precise
than other linear solvers. Instead, use mldivide to solve a system of
linear equations. Based on how the system looks like, mldivide will
choose an appropriate method.

x(k+1) = D \ (b - (L+U)*x(k));

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Dears, Please could one answer me, how I can solve below
equation numerically by Jacobi method to get temperature
distribution along z-axis, 1D problem, steady state: (

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