blob: f744e85666b39c5055c82c2bcb0a30297d35cbaf [file] [log] [blame]
Raymonddee08492015-04-02 10:43:13 -07001/*
2 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
3 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
4 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
5 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
6 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
7 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
8 *
9 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10 *
11 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15 * limitations under the License.
16 */
17
18package org.apache.commons.math.ode;
19
20import org.apache.commons.math.ode.DerivativeException;
21
22
23/** This interface represents a second order integrator for
24 * differential equations.
25 *
26 * <p>The classes which are devoted to solve second order differential
27 * equations should implement this interface. The problems which can
28 * be handled should implement the {@link
29 * SecondOrderDifferentialEquations} interface.</p>
30 *
31 * @see SecondOrderDifferentialEquations
32 * @version $Revision: 1073158 $ $Date: 2011-02-21 22:46:52 +0100 (lun. 21 févr. 2011) $
33 * @since 1.2
34 */
35
36public interface SecondOrderIntegrator extends ODEIntegrator {
37
38 /** Integrate the differential equations up to the given time
39 * @param equations differential equations to integrate
40 * @param t0 initial time
41 * @param y0 initial value of the state vector at t0
42 * @param yDot0 initial value of the first derivative of the state
43 * vector at t0
44 * @param t target time for the integration
45 * (can be set to a value smaller thant <code>t0</code> for backward integration)
46 * @param y placeholder where to put the state vector at each
47 * successful step (and hence at the end of integration), can be the
48 * same object as y0
49 * @param yDot placeholder where to put the first derivative of
50 * the state vector at time t, can be the same object as yDot0
51 * @throws IntegratorException if the integrator cannot perform integration
52 * @throws DerivativeException this exception is propagated to the caller if the
53 * underlying user function triggers one
54 */
55 void integrate(SecondOrderDifferentialEquations equations,
56 double t0, double[] y0, double[] yDot0,
57 double t, double[] y, double[] yDot)
58 throws DerivativeException, IntegratorException;
59
60}