% 3D plot of solution to problem 3 on final, Math 421 Fall 2007 (Bueler) NN=20; % number of terms in sum x = linspace(0,1,201); y = linspace(0,pi,31); [xx,yy] = meshgrid(x,y); zz = zeros(size(xx)); c = zeros(1,NN); for k=0:NN-1 n = 2 * k + 1; c(k+1) = -4 / (pi * n); % direct calculation easily overflows: % ff = sinh(n * pi * (yy-pi)) ./ sinh(n * pi*pi)); small = exp(-2 * n * pi*pi); ff = ( exp(n*pi*(yy - 2 * pi)) - exp(-n*pi*yy) ) / (1 - small); zz = zz + c(k+1) * ff .* sin(n * pi * xx); end surf(x,y,zz,'LineStyle','none') xlabel x, ylabel y, axis tight