Using adaptive step sizes with scipy.integrate.ode

Question

The (brief) documentation for scipy.integrate.ode says that two methods (dopri5 and dop853) have stepsize control and dense output. L

Answer 1

Since SciPy 0.13.0,

The intermediate results from the dopri family of ODE solvers can now be accessed by a solout callback function.

import numpy as np
from scipy.integrate import ode
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


def logistic(t, y, r):
    return r * y * (1.0 - y)

r = .01
t0 = 0
y0 = 1e-5
t1 = 5000.0

backend = 'dopri5'
# backend = 'dop853'
solver = ode(logistic).set_integrator(backend)

sol = []
def solout(t, y):
    sol.append([t, *y])
solver.set_solout(solout)
solver.set_initial_value(y0, t0).set_f_params(r)
solver.integrate(t1)

sol = np.array(sol)

plt.plot(sol[:,0], sol[:,1], 'b.-')
plt.show()

Result:

The result seems to be slightly different from Tim D's, although they both use the same backend. I suspect this having to do with FSAL property of dopri5. In Tim's approach, I think the result k7 from the seventh stage is discarded, so k1 is calculated afresh.

Note: There's a known bug with set_solout not working if you set it after setting initial values. It was fixed as of SciPy 0.17.0.