This is cool.  Questions: 
- I think the original dassl was limited to banded Jacobians but in this 
implementation any (sparse)-Jacobian works, right?
- Are there any of the good old licencing issues here? DASSL comes without 
one.

On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 9:21:39 AM UTC+1, Ivar Nesje wrote:
>
> I think a DAE solver would be a great fit for ODE.jl. Currently I think it 
> will be best to develop it outside, until a few important cleanups is 
> performed on the ODE solvers. The state of ODE.jl is between a breaking API 
> discussion and implementation of that described API. It would be very nice 
> if you could read some of the 
> discussion<https://github.com/JuliaLang/ODE.jl/search?q=api&ref=cmdform&type=Issues>
>  and 
> documentation <https://github.com/JuliaLang/ODE.jl/blob/master/doc/api.md> 
> and 
> comment from your point of view. Some consensus has been reached, but there 
> are still possible to argue for different solutions.
>
> Ivar
>
> kl. 10:02:40 UTC+2 tirsdag 6. mai 2014 skrev Alex følgende:
>>
>> Or submit a PR for including it in ODE.jl :-)
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Alex.
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 09:57:34 UTC+2, Viral Shah wrote:
>>>
>>> It's great to see a DASSL implementation in Julia! Do register it with 
>>> METADATA.
>>>
>>> -viral
>>>
>>> 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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