Design of software for ODEs

  • Authors:
  • L. F. Shampine

  • Affiliations:
  • Mathematics Department, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We discuss the design of software that is easy to use for simple problems, but still capable of solving complicated problems. Nowadays a design should accommodate related, but fundamentally different, tasks such as solving DAEs and DDEs in addition to IVPs and BVPs for ODEs. Major issues are illustrated with the MATLAB ODE Suite and selected solvers written in Fortran 90 and Maple.