Package org.hipparchus.ode

Interface OrdinaryDifferentialEquation

All Known Subinterfaces:
ODEJacobiansProvider
All Known Implementing Classes:
FirstOrderConverter
public interface OrdinaryDifferentialEquation
This interface represents a first order differential equations set.

This interface should be implemented by all real first order differential equation problems before they can be handled by the integrators ODEIntegrator.integrate(OrdinaryDifferentialEquation, ODEState, double) method.

A first order differential equations problem, as seen by an integrator is the time derivative dY/dt of a state vector Y, both being one dimensional arrays. From the integrator point of view, this derivative depends only on the current time t and on the state vector Y.

For real problems, the derivative depends also on parameters that do not belong to the state vector (dynamical model constants for example). These constants are completely outside of the scope of this interface, the classes that implement it are allowed to handle them as they want.

See Also:

  • Method Summary

    Modifier and Type
    Method
    Description
    double[]
    computeDerivatives(double t, double[] y)
    Get the current time derivative of the state vector.
    int
    getDimension()
    Get the dimension of the problem.
    default void
    init(double t0, double[] y0, double finalTime)
    Initialize equations at the start of an ODE integration.

  • Method Details

    • getDimension

      int getDimension()
      Get the dimension of the problem.
      Returns:
      dimension of the problem

    • init

      default void init(double t0, double[] y0, double finalTime)
      Initialize equations at the start of an ODE integration.

      This method is called once at the start of the integration. It may be used by the equations to initialize some internal data if needed.

      The default implementation does nothing.

      Parameters:
      t0 - value of the independent time variable at integration start
      y0 - array containing the value of the state vector at integration start
      finalTime - target time for the integration

    • computeDerivatives

      double[] computeDerivatives(double t, double[] y)
      Get the current time derivative of the state vector.
      Parameters:
      t - current value of the independent time variable
      y - array containing the current value of the state vector
      Returns:
      time derivative of the state vector