Assimulo is a Cython/Python based simulation package that allows for simulation of both ordinary differential equations of the form $f(t,y)$ (explicit problems) and differential algebraic equations of the form $f(t, y, y_d)$ (implicit problems). Assimulo currently supports Explicit Euler, adaptive Runge-Kutta of order 4 and Runge-Kutta of order 4. Assimulo also wraps the popular SUNDIALS solvers CVode (for explicit problems) and IDA (for implicit problems). Hairer's codes Radau5, Rodas and Dopri5 is also available.
CVode and IDA supports discontinuous systems of the form $f(t, y, s_w)$ and $f(t, y, y_d, s_w)$ with event(root)-functions defined as $g(t, y, s_w)$ and $g(t, y, y_d, s_w)$ where $s_w$ should be fixed during the integration.
The package comes with a Problem specifications class and subclasses corresponding to different types of problems. Choices are Implicit_Problem
and Explicit_Problem
.
To define and solve a problem, first import the solver of choice and the appropriate Implicit
/Explicit
class. Furthermore, define your function $f$ and the initial conditions to pass to the problem class constructor. Then, create your solver, set the attributes
(method, absolute/relative tolerance etc.) and use the simulate method to simulate.
For more information about Assimulo, documentation tutorial etc, see the docs from the older JModelica website.
Current Assimulo development aims for compliancy with Sundials v2.7.0.
Some optional features in `Assimulo>=3.4.1`` are built on the modified Sundials version that can be accessed here.
See the INSTALL file or the installation page on http://www.jmodelica.org/assimulo.
For information about contributing, see https://github.com/modelon-community/contributing.
For contact, either via email or the easiest is immediately by filing an issue or pull request here on GitHub.
Email: christian.winther
at modelon.com
.