gear_ode

gear_ode, a Python code which defines a pair of stiff ordinary differential equations (ODE) of the form y'=-C*y, originally posed by William Gear.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

gear_ode is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

python_ode, a Python code which sets up various systems of ordinary differential equations (ODE).

Reference:

• William Gear,
  Numerical Initial Value Problems in Ordinary Differential Equations,
  Prentice Hall, 1971.
• William Press, Brian Flannery, Saul Teukolsky, William Vetterling,
  Numerical Recipes in FORTRAN: The Art of Scientific Computing,
  Second Edition,
  Cambridge University Press, 1992,
  ISBN: 0-521-43064-X,
  LC: QA297.N866.

Source Code:

• gear_ode.py, the source code.
• gear_ode.sh, runs all the tests.
• gear_ode.txt, the output file.

• gear_euler_backward.png
• gear_euler.png
• gear_midpoint.png