Re: Simulink for Octave

[Olaf Till]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 05:24:33AM -0700, Richard Crozier wrote:
> Under the hood, simulink uses the Matlab ode solver functions such as ode45,
> ode23, ode15s etc. All simulink really does is provide a pretty interface
> and some handy built-in blocks (such as SimPowerSystems).
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> Octave has equivalents to these ode functions (in an octave-forge package at
> least) so you can get the same functionality without being locked into
> simulink if you are willing to invest the time in learning to use these.

Agree. And you get (probably, I don't use simulink) more flexibility
for organizing your code for larger or evolving problems.

> They are significantly slower implementations in Octave though.

Don't know this what regards ode45 and so on, but in most cases
you should use Octaves 'lsode' anyway. It should be rather fast and
accurate.

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