001 /*
002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
008 *
009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
010 *
011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
015 * limitations under the License.
016 */
017
018 package org.apache.commons.math3.ode.sampling;
019
020
021 /**
022 * This interface represents a handler that should be called after
023 * each successful fixed step.
024
025 * <p>This interface should be implemented by anyone who is interested
026 * in getting the solution of an ordinary differential equation at
027 * fixed time steps. Objects implementing this interface should be
028 * wrapped within an instance of {@link StepNormalizer} that itself
029 * is used as the general {@link StepHandler} by the integrator. The
030 * {@link StepNormalizer} object is called according to the integrator
031 * internal algorithms and it calls objects implementing this
032 * interface as necessary at fixed time steps.</p>
033 *
034 * @see StepHandler
035 * @see StepNormalizer
036 * @version $Id: FixedStepHandler.java 1416643 2012-12-03 19:37:14Z tn $
037 * @since 1.2
038 */
039
040 public interface FixedStepHandler {
041
042 /** Initialize step handler at the start of an ODE integration.
043 * <p>
044 * This method is called once at the start of the integration. It
045 * may be used by the step handler to initialize some internal data
046 * if needed.
047 * </p>
048 * @param t0 start value of the independent <i>time</i> variable
049 * @param y0 array containing the start value of the state vector
050 * @param t target time for the integration
051 */
052 void init(double t0, double[] y0, double t);
053
054 /**
055 * Handle the last accepted step
056 * @param t time of the current step
057 * @param y state vector at t. For efficiency purposes, the {@link
058 * StepNormalizer} class reuses the same array on each call, so if
059 * the instance wants to keep it across all calls (for example to
060 * provide at the end of the integration a complete array of all
061 * steps), it should build a local copy store this copy.
062 * @param yDot derivatives of the state vector state vector at t.
063 * For efficiency purposes, the {@link StepNormalizer} class reuses
064 * the same array on each call, so if
065 * the instance wants to keep it across all calls (for example to
066 * provide at the end of the integration a complete array of all
067 * steps), it should build a local copy store this copy.
068 * @param isLast true if the step is the last one
069 */
070 void handleStep(double t, double[] y, double[] yDot, boolean isLast);
071
072 }