Is it possible to solve Boundary value problem using symbolic? Also looking for suggestions of any other way to solve this problem.

[madhan ravi]

upload the code that you tried and what's the expected result ? what's the lambda , L value?

[Anik Faisal]

syms u(x) x0 k lambda L
eqn=diff(u,x,2)+(2/(x+x0))*diff(u,x,1)==(lambda/k)*u;
cond=[u(0)==0, u(L)==0];
usol(x)=dsolve(eqn,cond)

[Anik Faisal]

also lambda is just a constant. The expected result is to find an analytical solution/fourier series approximation of the solution. I'm getting usol(x)=0 from the code I wrote with the help of reference page for dsolve()

[madhan ravi]

Any ideas what result it should have?

[Anik Faisal]

the question also suggests it might be useful to use the transformation: