OGS
ODE Solver Library

Detailed Description

This ODE solver library has been designed with an implicit first-order quasilinear ODE in mind. However, it is in principle not restricted to such a kind of equation, but can be extended to also solve other equation types. In particular it is possible to introduce equation types that are no ODEs, but are nonlinear equations without time derivative terms.

The aim of the library's design is being able to formulate FEM processes without having to care which time discretization scheme and which nonlinear iteration method will be used to solve it.

The library currently offers the backward Euler time discretization schemes, cf. the conceputal remarks on them. The design follows Gear's method, which also underlies the DASSL algorithm of Petzold et al., cf. Differential-algebraic equations article, section [Numerical methods/Direct discretization] (https://web.archive.org/web/20240423230323/http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Differential-algebraic_equations#Numerical_methods.2FDirect_discretization) [8].

A rough overview over the interplay between the various parts of this library is given in the image below. Therein red symbols indicate which classes own which matrices or vectors (for the meaning of the different symbols refer to the documentation of the respective classes). The word own should not be taken too strict in the sense of C++ member ownership, although currently it is implemented as such; but in the future this implementation detail might change. Rather own means that the class is in charge of the respective matrix or vector, i.e., it can read from and write to it or pass it on to functions; or in other words: The class knows about the meaning of that matrix/vector. Note that only matrices and vectors that describe some proper state of the respective classes are shown; those storing only intermediate computations have been omitted from the image.

Interplay of the different parts of the ODE

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Class 2

Relation

Remarks

TimeDiscretizedODESystem

ODESystem

1:1

the ODESystem

represents part of the state of the TimeDiscretizedODESystem TimeDiscretizedODESystem | TimeDiscretization | 1:1 | analogous for the TimeDiscretization TimeDiscretizedODESystem | MatrixTranslator | 1:1 | analogous for the MatrixTranslator NonlinearSolver | NonlinearSystem | 1:n | a nonlinear solver can solve various equations, one after the other LinearSolver | NonlinearSolver | 1:n | various NonlinearSolver's can share the same LinearSolver

Classes

class  NumLib::EquationSystem
class  NumLib::MatrixTranslator< ODETag >
class  NumLib::MatrixTranslator< ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear >
class  NumLib::MatrixTranslatorGeneral< ODETag >
class  NumLib::MatrixTranslatorGeneral< ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear >
class  NumLib::NonlinearSolver< NLTag >
class  NumLib::NonlinearSolver< NonlinearSolverTag::Newton >
class  NumLib::NonlinearSolver< NonlinearSolverTag::Picard >
class  NumLib::NonlinearSystem< NLTag >
class  NumLib::NonlinearSystem< NonlinearSolverTag::Newton >
class  NumLib::NonlinearSystem< NonlinearSolverTag::Picard >
class  NumLib::ODESystem< ODETag, NLTag >
class  NumLib::ODESystem< ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear, NonlinearSolverTag::Picard >
class  NumLib::ODESystem< ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear, NonlinearSolverTag::Newton >
class  NumLib::PETScNonlinearSolver
class  NumLib::TimeDiscretization
class  NumLib::BackwardEuler
 Backward Euler scheme. More...
class  NumLib::TimeDiscretizedODESystemBase< NLTag >
class  NumLib::TimeDiscretizedODESystem< ODETag, NLTag >
class  NumLib::TimeDiscretizedODESystem< ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear, NonlinearSolverTag::Newton >
class  NumLib::TimeDiscretizedODESystem< ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear, NonlinearSolverTag::Picard >

Enumerations

enum class  NumLib::IterationResult : char { NumLib::IterationResult::SUCCESS , NumLib::IterationResult::FAILURE , NumLib::IterationResult::REPEAT_ITERATION }
 Status flags telling the NonlinearSolver if an iteration succeeded. More...
enum class  NumLib::NonlinearSolverTag : bool { NumLib::NonlinearSolverTag::Picard , NumLib::NonlinearSolverTag::Newton }
 Tag used to specify which nonlinear solver will be used. More...
enum class  NumLib::ODESystemTag : char { NumLib::ODESystemTag::FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear , NumLib::ODESystemTag::NeumannBC }
 Tag used to specify the type of ODE. More...

Functions

template<ODESystemTag ODETag>
std::unique_ptr< MatrixTranslator< ODETag > > NumLib::createMatrixTranslator (TimeDiscretization const &timeDisc)

Enumeration Type Documentation

◆ IterationResult

enum class NumLib::IterationResult : char
strong

Status flags telling the NonlinearSolver if an iteration succeeded.

Enumerator
SUCCESS 
FAILURE 
REPEAT_ITERATION 

Definition at line 14 of file EquationSystem.h.

◆ NonlinearSolverTag

enum class NumLib::NonlinearSolverTag : bool
strong

Tag used to specify which nonlinear solver will be used.

Enumerator
Picard 

Picard fixpoint iteration scheme

Newton 

Newton-Raphson iteration scheme

Definition at line 12 of file Types.h.

◆ ODESystemTag

enum class NumLib::ODESystemTag : char
strong

Tag used to specify the type of ODE.

Enumerator
FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear 

First order implicit quasi-linear ODE

This is an ODE of the form \( M(x,t)\cdot \dot x + K(x,t) \cdot x - b(x,t) =: r(\dot x, x, t) \stackrel{!}{=} 0 \)

NeumannBC 

Definition at line 19 of file Types.h.

20{
28 NeumannBC // Sure, that's misuse of this enum, so sue me!
29};
@ FirstOrderImplicitQuasilinear
Definition Types.h:27

Function Documentation

◆ createMatrixTranslator()

template<ODESystemTag ODETag>
std::unique_ptr< MatrixTranslator< ODETag > > NumLib::createMatrixTranslator ( TimeDiscretization const & timeDisc)