Hi,
I am Varad Deshmukh, a Master's student at UCSB majoring in Computer
Science. My research interests are in Scientific Computing and HPC, and
I am interested in contributing to GSL. I recently took up a course in
numerical simulation and I figured a good way to start would be looking
into ODE solvers.
The TODO list mentions work to be done for adding other stepper
methods - especially the BDF methods for DAE's implemented in DASSL and
DASPK. Could you please elaborate more on which new methods you want to
focus on? I have been reading the code for the Runge-Kutta methods - the
driver, evolve and control formats - and have a rough idea about the
design.
It would be great if I could get some help regarding GSL development in
general and ode-initval2 in particular. If you feel that I should work
with smaller bugs and fix them before going into a new implementation, I
would like to hear suggestions.
Thank you,
Varad.