EJS allows creating multiple code pages and ODE pages, so I have a basic question.
I would like to understand how they would interact:
[1] If a code page is followed immediately by an ODE page, would the code page work exactly the same as a "Preliminary" code-block attached to the ODE?
[2] If the above is not true, then what kind of physical problem would be modeled by a code page followed by an ODE? Or a sequence like code-ODE-code-ODE?
1) each page is execute after the previous one. From left to right. As if they were successive routines. A normal page is just this, a routine. AnODE page steps the ODE solution by the increment. No. The code page does not work exactly as a preliminary page. except if you use Euler method.
In all other methods, the solver calls the rate functions more than once, with intermediate steps. What you write in Prelim Code is 'magically' called at each intermediate step to provide the right approximation. If you write the code in a previous normal code page, this is allied only once BEFORE the solving step starts.
2) Well, suppose you have a problem that you can solve both analytically and numerically. You would do the analytic part in a normal code page, the numeric part using the ODE editor. Or you may have two phenomena coexisting in a problem (maybe one continuous, on discrete). For the continuous you can use an ODE, for the discrete you can provide your own algorithm.
Having two ODE pages in the same model is unusual. But having something like code-ODE-code is possible. You may want to do some pre-ode code, and post-ode code.
