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vode: General Solver for Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE)

Description

Solves the initial value problem for stiff or nonstiff systems of ordinary differential equations (ODE) in the form:

$$dy/dt = f(t,y)$$ The Rfunction vode provides an interface to the Fortran ODE solver of the same name, written by Peter N. Brown, Alan C. Hindmarsh and George D. Byrne. The system of ODE's is written as an Rfunction or be defined in compiled code that has been dynamically loaded. In contrast to lsoda, the user has to specify whether or not the problem is stiff and choose the appropriate solution method. vode is very similar to lsode, but uses a variable-coefficient method rather than the fixed-step-interpolate methods in lsode. In addition, in vode it is possible to choose whether or not a copy of the Jacobian is saved for reuse in the corrector iteration algorithm; In lsode, a copy is not kept.

Usage

vode(y, times, func, parms, rtol = 1e-6, atol = 1e-8,  
  jacfunc = NULL, jactype = "fullint", mf = NULL, verbose = FALSE,   
  tcrit = NULL, hmin = 0, hmax = NULL, hini = 0, ynames = TRUE, maxord = NULL, 
  bandup = NULL, banddown = NULL, maxsteps = 5000, dllname = NULL, 
  initfunc = dllname, initpar = parms, rpar = NULL, 
  ipar = NULL, nout = 0, outnames = NULL, ...)

Arguments

y
the initial (state) values for the ODE system. If y has a name attribute, the names will be used to label the output matrix.
times
time sequence for which output is wanted; the first value of times must be the initial time; if only one step is to be taken; set times = NULL.
func
either an R-function that computes the values of the derivatives in the ODE system (the model definition) at time t, or a character string giving the name of a compiled function in a dynamically loaded shared library.
parms
vector or list of parameters used in func or jacfunc.
rtol
relative error tolerance, either a scalar or an array as long as y. See details.
atol
absolute error tolerance, either a scalar or an array as long as y. See details.
jacfunc
if not NULL, an Rfunction that computes the jacobian of the system of differential equations dydot(i)/dy(j), or a string giving the name of a function or subroutine in dllname that computes the jacobian (see Details b
jactype
the structure of the jacobian, one of "fullint", "fullusr", "bandusr" or "bandint" - either full or banded and estimated internally or by user; overruled if mf is not NULL.
mf
the "method flag" passed to function vode - overrules jactype - provides more options than jactype - see details.
verbose
if TRUE: full output to the screen, e.g. will output the settings of vectors istate and rstate - see details.
tcrit
if not NULL, then vode cannot integrate past tcrit. The Fortran routine dvode overshoots its targets (times points in the vector times), and interpolates values for the desired t
hmin
an optional minimum value of the integration stepsize. In special situations this parameter may speed up computations with the cost of precision. Don't use hmin if you don't know why!
hmax
an optional maximum value of the integration stepsize. If not specified, hmax is set to the largest difference in times, to avoid that the simulation possibly ignores short-term events. If 0, no maximal size is specified.
hini
initial step size to be attempted; if 0, initial step size is determined by the solver.
ynames
if FALSE: names of state variables are not passed to function func ; this may speed up the simulation especially for multi-D models.
maxord
the maximum order to be allowed. NULL uses the default, i.e. order 12 if implicit Adams method (meth = 1), order 5 if BDF method (meth = 2). Reduce maxord to save storage space.
bandup
number of non-zero bands above the diagonal, in case the Jacobian is banded.
banddown
number of non-zero bands below the diagonal, in case the Jacobian is banded.
maxsteps
maximal number of steps during one call to the solver.
dllname
a string giving the name of the shared library (without extension) that contains all the compiled function or subroutine definitions refered to in func and jacfunc. See package vignette.
initfunc
if not NULL, the name of the initialisation function (which initialises values of parameters), as provided in dllname. See package vignette.
initpar
only when dllname is specified and an initialisation function initfunc is in the dll: the parameters passed to the initialiser, to initialise the common blocks (fortran) or global variables (C, C++).
rpar
only when dllname is specified: a vector with double precision values passed to the dll-functions whose names are specified by func and jacfunc.
ipar
only when dllname is specified: a vector with integer values passed to the dll-functions whose names are specified by func and jacfunc.
nout
only used if dllname is specified and the model is defined in compiled code: the number of output variables calculated in the compiled function func, present in the shared library. Note: it is not automatically checke
outnames
only used if dllname is specified and nout > 0: the names of output variables calculated in the compiled function func, present in the shared library.
...
additional arguments passed to func and jacfunc allowing this to be a generic function.

Value

  • A matrix with up to as many rows as elements in times and as many columns as elements in y plus the number of "global" values returned in the next elements of the return from func, plus an additional column (the first) for the time value. There will be one row for each element in times unless the Fortran routine `vode' returns with an unrecoverable error. If y has a names attribute, it will be used to label the columns of the output value. The output will have the attributes istate, and rstate, two vectors with several useful elements. See details. The first element of istate returns the conditions under which the last call to lsoda returned. Normal is istate[1] = 2. If verbose = TRUE, the settings of istate and rstate will be written to the screen.

Details

Before using the integrator vode, the user has to decide whether or not the problem is stiff. If the problem is nonstiff, use method flag mf = 10, which selects a nonstiff (Adams) method, no Jacobian used. If the problem is stiff, there are four standard choices which can be specified with jactype or mf. The options for jactype are [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object] More options are available when specifying mf directly. The legal values of mf are 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, -11, -12, -14, -15, -21, -22, -24, -25. mf is a signed two-digit integer, mf = JSV*(10*METH + MITER), where [object Object],[object Object],[object Object] If MITER = 1 or 4, the user must supply a subroutine jacfunc. The example for integrator lsode demonstrates how to specify both a banded and full jacobian. The input parameters rtol, and atol determine the error control performed by the solver. If the request for precision exceeds the capabilities of the machine, vode will return an error code. See lsoda for details. Models may be defined in compiled C or Fortran code, as well as in an R-function. See package vignette for details. The output will have the attributes istate, and rstate, two vectors with several useful elements. If verbose = TRUE, the settings of istate and rstate will be written to the screen. The following elements of istate are meaningful: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object] rstate contains the following: [object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object] For more information, see the comments in the original code dvode.f

References

P. N. Brown, G. D. Byrne, and A. C. Hindmarsh, 1989. VODE: A Variable Coefficient ODE Solver, SIAM J. Sci. Stat. Comput., 10, pp. 1038-1051. Also, LLNL Report UCRL-98412, June 1988.

G. D. Byrne and A. C. Hindmarsh, 1975. A Polyalgorithm for the Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations. ACM Trans. Math. Software, 1, pp. 71-96.

A. C. Hindmarsh and G. D. Byrne, 1977. EPISODE: An Effective Package for the Integration of Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations. LLNL Report UCID-30112, Rev. 1.

G. D. Byrne and A. C. Hindmarsh, 1976. EPISODEB: An Experimental Package for the Integration of Systems of Ordinary Differential Equations with Banded Jacobians. LLNL Report UCID-30132, April 1976.

A. C. Hindmarsh, 1983. ODEPACK, a Systematized Collection of ODE Solvers. in Scientific Computing, R. S. Stepleman et al., eds., North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 55-64. K. R. Jackson and R. Sacks-Davis, 1980. An Alternative Implementation of Variable Step-Size Multistep Formulas for Stiff ODEs. ACM Trans. Math. Software, 6, pp. 295-318. Netlib: http://www.netlib.org

See Also

ode, lsoda, lsode, lsodes, lsodar, daspk, rk.

Examples

Run this code
## The famous Lorenz equations: chaos in the earth's atmosphere
## Lorenz 1963. J. Atmos. Sci. 20, 130-141.

chaos <- function(t, state, parameters)
{
  with(as.list(c(state)),{

    dx     <- -8/3*x+y*z
    dy     <- -10*(y-z)
    dz     <- -x*y+28*y-z

    list(c(dx, dy, dz))
  })
}

state <- c(x = 1, y = 1, z = 1)
times <- seq(0, 100, 0.01)
out   <- as.data.frame(vode(state, times, chaos, 0))

plot(out$x, out$y, type = "l", main = "Lorenz butterfly")

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