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Re: ODEs - runge kutta
Yes, I think that it would be a good idea the have a little
TODO about how to implement that interface. I don't promise
I will have the time or knowledge to do it all, but I will definitely
help.
Brian Gough (bjg@network-theory.co.uk) was saying:
> Jonathan Leto writes:
> > This is slightly OT, and I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if
> > you would like to use Perl, I wrote the Math::ODE perl module for
> > this situation. It uses the 4th Order Runge-Kutta, and does the
> > jacobian approximation by itself, so that all you do is define all
> > the parameters of the system.
>
> It looks cool.
>
> > Once again, I would like to state that GSL has a much more
> > powerful interface for solving ODE's, but it is probably overkill
> > in most simle situations, and not friendly to the beginning
> > programmer.
>
> A higher level interface should not be too hard to write if someone
> would like to try it --- there is room for it on top of the existing
> low-level interface (like gsl_spline which was built on top of
> gsl_interp). I can suggest what the interface should look like if
> anyone is interested in doing that.
>
> Brian
>
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