Matt, I've had a lot of experience solving ODE, and I have come to prefer programming in C or its derivatives by far to programming in FORTRAN. Nevertheless, the fact remains that the best, freely-available, ODE solvers are all written in FORTRAN. This has never posed a problem for me, however: I simply compile with g77 and link to the driver routine (written in C) with gcc. You may want to think about compiler flags and may have to get ahold of the f2c library so you can link against that too.
I would not recommend writing your own ODE solver. Understanding the way your code is working, in general, is a good thing. Knowing the details of the implementation of an adaptive step-size, multiorder ODE solver is another. I would recommend getting started with LSODE, which you can download, in FORTRAN, from the netlib site: www.netlib.org. Then you can focus on the science. Aaron -- ====================================================================== Aaron King, Ph.D. http://two.ucdavis.edu/~aking Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of California Tel: 530/752 3026 One Shields Avenue, Davis CA 95616 USA Fax: 530/752 3350 ====================================================================== _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
