why i get 'complex double' type?

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ali yaman
ali yaman on 21 Jul 2021
Commented: ali yaman on 22 Jul 2021
Hi, i have below code. When run it i get kro as complex double.
Do you have any idea about why it is complex number, and how i can fix it.
By the way krw is not complex, just kro is complex.
thanx
swi=0.328; sor=0.205;
sw=linspace(swi,1-sor,100);
swd=(sw-swi)./(1-swi-sor);
kro=(1-swd).^2.56;
krw=0.78*(swd).^3.72;

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 21 Jul 2021
Although algebraically the maximum swd value should be 1 exactly, because of round-off error it turns out to be just slightly greater than 1. Then 1 minus that can be just slightly negative. Negative raised to a fraction is complex.
Take min(swd, 1)
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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 21 Jul 2021
swd = min(swd, 1);
means the same thing as
for K = 1 : numel(swd)
if swd(K) > 1; swd(K) = 1; end
end
That is, at any time, you take the minimum of what is in swd, compared to the constant 1. Any swd entry that is greater than 1 will be reduced to 1.
ali yaman
ali yaman on 22 Jul 2021
i got it. Thank you very much

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