# scipy.integrate.RK45¶

class scipy.integrate.RK45(fun, t0, y0, t_bound, max_step=inf, rtol=0.001, atol=1e-06, vectorized=False, first_step=None, **extraneous)[source]

Explicit Runge-Kutta method of order 5(4).

This uses the Dormand-Prince pair of formulas [1]. The error is controlled assuming accuracy of the fourth-order method accuracy, but steps are taken using the fifth-order accurate formula (local extrapolation is done). A quartic interpolation polynomial is used for the dense output [2].

Can be applied in the complex domain.

Parameters: fun : callable Right-hand side of the system. The calling signature is fun(t, y). Here t is a scalar, and there are two options for the ndarray y: It can either have shape (n,); then fun must return array_like with shape (n,). Alternatively it can have shape (n, k); then fun must return an array_like with shape (n, k), i.e. each column corresponds to a single column in y. The choice between the two options is determined by vectorized argument (see below). t0 : float Initial time. y0 : array_like, shape (n,) Initial state. t_bound : float Boundary time - the integration won’t continue beyond it. It also determines the direction of the integration. first_step : float or None, optional Initial step size. Default is None which means that the algorithm should choose. max_step : float, optional Maximum allowed step size. Default is np.inf, i.e. the step size is not bounded and determined solely by the solver. rtol, atol : float and array_like, optional Relative and absolute tolerances. The solver keeps the local error estimates less than atol + rtol * abs(y). Here rtol controls a relative accuracy (number of correct digits). But if a component of y is approximately below atol, the error only needs to fall within the same atol threshold, and the number of correct digits is not guaranteed. If components of y have different scales, it might be beneficial to set different atol values for different components by passing array_like with shape (n,) for atol. Default values are 1e-3 for rtol and 1e-6 for atol. vectorized : bool, optional Whether fun is implemented in a vectorized fashion. Default is False.

References

 [1] (1, 2) J. R. Dormand, P. J. Prince, “A family of embedded Runge-Kutta formulae”, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 19-26, 1980.
 [2] (1, 2) L. W. Shampine, “Some Practical Runge-Kutta Formulas”, Mathematics of Computation,, Vol. 46, No. 173, pp. 135-150, 1986.
Attributes: n : int Number of equations. status : string Current status of the solver: ‘running’, ‘finished’ or ‘failed’. t_bound : float Boundary time. direction : float Integration direction: +1 or -1. t : float Current time. y : ndarray Current state. t_old : float Previous time. None if no steps were made yet. step_size : float Size of the last successful step. None if no steps were made yet. nfev : int Number evaluations of the system’s right-hand side. njev : int Number of evaluations of the Jacobian. Is always 0 for this solver as it does not use the Jacobian. nlu : int Number of LU decompositions. Is always 0 for this solver.

Methods

 dense_output() Compute a local interpolant over the last successful step. step() Perform one integration step.

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