Formulation
The initial
value problem for orninary differential equations
is a problem in which we have a system with an arbitrary number of ordinary differential equations of first order endowed with a given starting value:
y'(t)=f(t,y(t)), a<= t<= b,
y(a)=ya.
where y:[a,b] -> RN, f:[a,b] x RN -> RN, ya in RN.
N is the number of differential equations.