It's great to see a DASSL implementation in Julia! Do register it with 
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On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 12:41:20 PM UTC+5:30, Paweł Biernat wrote:
>
> For the last several weeks I have been implementing [1] a DASSL
> algorithm in Julia.  The DASSL algorithm was developed by Linda
> Petzold in late 80s to solve Differential Algebraic Equations (DAE)
> and its Fortran 77 implementation is one of the most popular DAE
> solvers.  My implementation in Julia bases mainly on a book [3] and
> partly on the source of the original implementation [2] (mostly in
> places where the book was ambiguous).  I tried to mimic the behavior
> of the original implementation as much as I could but my code is not
> in a one to one correspondence with the original (I aimed at
> readability of the algorithm), so don't be surprised if you get
> slightly different results from both versions.
>
> This is my first larger project in Julia so don't expect high end
> quality or performance, but I tested my implementation for convergence
> on various simple index-0 and index-1 problems and it works just
> fine.  That said, I am open to any critique and suggestions, and any
> help with improving the code.  Ultimately, I would like to see this
> code merged into the ODE.jl library, if the maintainers of the latter
> allow it.
>
> [1] https://github.com/pwl/dassl.jl
> [2] http://www.netlib.org/ode/ddassl.f
> [3] "Numerical Solution of Initial'Value Problems in 
> Differential-Algebraic Equations" K. E. Brenan, S. L. Campbell, L. R. 
> Petzold
>
>

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