गणित में साधारण अवकल समीकरण (ordinary differential equation या ODE) उन अवकल समीकरणों को कहते हैं जिसमें केवल एक स्वतंत्र चर तथा उसके अवकलज मौजूद हों।

उदाहरण

साधारण अवकल समीकरण का एक उदाहरण नियत द्रव्यमान m वाली किसी वस्तु की गति का वर्णन करने वाला न्यूटन का गति का दूसरा नियम है-

जिसमें बल F वस्तु की स्थिति x (t) तथा समय t पर निर्भर है। इसमें अज्ञात फलन x (t) समीकरण के दोनों तरफ विद्यमान है।

अन्य उदाहरण:

जिसका हल है : .

 
 
 , जिसको इस तरह भी लिख सकते हैं:

यथातथ्य (exact) हल
कुछ अवकल समीकरणों का हल ठीक-ठीक तथा बन्द स्वरूप (exact and closed form) में लिखा जा सकता है। यहाँ कुछ प्रकार के महत्वपूर्ण अवकल समीकरण दिये गये हैं-

{| class="wikitable"
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! scope="col" width="200px" | अवकल समीकरण
! scope="col" width="100px" | हल की विधि
! scope="col" width="400px" | सामान्य हल
|-
! colspan="3" | चर अलग करने योग्य समीकरण (Separable equations)
|-
| First-order, separable in x and y (general case, see below for special cases)

|| Separation of variables (divide by P2Q1).
|| 
|-
| First-order, separable in x

||Direct integration.
|| 
|-
| First-order, autonomous, separable in y

|| Separation of variables (divide by F).
|| 
|-
| First-order, separable in x and y

|| Integrate throughout.
|| 
|-
! colspan="3"| General first-order equations
|-
| First-order, homogeneous

|| Set y = ux, then solve by separation of variables in u and x.
|| 
|-
| First-order, separable

|| Separation of variables (divide by xy).
||

If N = M, the solution is xy = C.
|-
| Exact differential, first-order

where 

|| Integrate throughout.
|| 

where Y(y) and X(x) are functions from the integrals rather than constant values, which are set to make the final function F(x, y) satisfy the initial equation.
|-
| Inexact differential, first-order

where 
|| Integration factor μ(x, y) satisfying

|| If μ(x, y) can be found:

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! colspan="3"| General second-order equations
|-
| Second-order, autonomous

|| Multiply equation by 2dy/dx, substitute , then integrate twice.
|| 
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! colspan="3"| Linear equations (up to nth order)
|-
| First-order, linear, inhomogeneous, function coefficients

|| Integrating factor: .
|| 
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| Second-order, linear, inhomogeneous, constant coefficients

|| Complementary function yc: assume yc = eαx, substitute and solve polynomial in α, to find the linearly independent functions .

Particular integral yp: in general the method of variation of parameters, though for very simple r(x) inspection may work.
|| 

If b2 > 4c, then:

If b2 = 4c, then:

If b2 < 4c, then:

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| nth-order, linear, inhomogeneous, constant coefficients

|| Complementary function yc: assume yc = eαx, substitute and solve polynomial in α, to find the linearly independent functions .

Particular integral yp: in general the method of variation of parameters, though for very simple r(x) inspection may work.
|| 

Since αj are the solutions of the polynomial of degree n: , then:

for αj all different,

for each root αj repeated kj times,

for some αj complex, then setting α = χj + iγj, and using Euler's formula, allows some terms in the previous results to be written in the form

where ϕj is an arbitrary constant (phase shift).
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