Re: Jacobian for DASSL ?

[Michael Hanke]

On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, John W. Eaton wrote:

> On  3-Jun-1998, Edward Scott Meadows <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> | I couldn't find any documentation about how to give Jacobian
> | information to DASSL.  Is that possible?  My problem is
> | failing, and I'm sure that providing a Jacobian would help.
> 
> Unfortunately, Octave provides no way to supply a Jacobian function
> for dassl.  I don't have plans to add any new features to the stable
> 2.0.x series, but perhaps I (or someone else?) will have time to
> implement this for the 2.1.x development release soon.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jwe
> 
> 
For the time being it may help if you are using other programs for
solving differential-algebraic systems. I implemented wrappers for
limex, radau5 and rodas having essentially the same calling sequence
as dassl. The are ment to be used as .oct files and, therefore,
relatively fast.

Michael 
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