RKSUITE Quickstart Guide

RKSUITE Quickstart Guide

RKSUITE is an excellent code suite designed for solving sets of simultaneous Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE's). The original code is available at NETLIB. We have converted RKSUITE to ANSI C code (with a dash of C++). It compiles and runs using all modern ANSI C++ compilers.

First, download the following files and place them on a diskette. Copy them to the c:\rksuite directory of your home computer. All users will need the rksuite documentation file: rksuite.txt.

FORTRAN users will need the FORTRAN version of the RKSUITE routines: rksuite.f

C++ users will need the C++ version of RKSUITE and the header file: rksuite.cpp and rksuite.h

When you create your Project using the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), after you add your own FORTRAN or C++ files to the project, add the file c:\rksuite\rksuite.f (if you are using FORTRAN) or c:\rksuite\rksuite.cpp (if you are using C++).

You will have to do this once for each project you create that accesses any of the RKSUITE functions.

NOTE:

RKSUITE is a significant piece of code. Therefore, it is BIG! The documentation alone requires approximately 50 pages. The FORTRAN and C++ versions of the programs themselves are each approximately 200KB (approximately 5,000 lines of code). When you build a project that uses RKSUITE for the first time, it will take much longer to compile than it will on subsequent builds. Be patient!