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SIAM J. SCl. STAT. COMPUT. Vol. 12, No. 5, pp. 991-999, September 1991
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RUNGE-KUTrA DEFECT CONTROL USING HERMITE-BIRKHOFF
INTERPOLATION* DESMOND J. HIGHAMf Abstract. Two techniques for reliably controlling the defect (residual) in the numerical solution of nonstiff initial value problems were given in [D. J. Higham, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 26 (1989), pp. 1175-1183 ]. This work describes an alternative approach based on Hermite-Birkhoff interpolation. The new approach has two main advantagesmit is applicable to Runge-Kutta schemes of any order, and it gives rise to a defect of the optimum asymptotic order of accuracy. For a particular Runge-Kutta formula the asymptotic analysis is verified numerically.
Key words. Runge-Kutta, defect, residual, backward error, Hermite-Birkhoff interpolation AMS(MOS)subject classification. 65L05
1. Introduction. This work deals with the control of errors in the numerical solution of the nonstiff initial value problem
,
y’(x) =f(x, y(x)), y(a)=yaR a
(C) 1991 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 001
RUNGE-KUTrA DEFECT CONTROL USING HERMITE-BIRKHOFF
INTERPOLATION* DESMOND J. HIGHAMf Abstract. Two techniques for reliably controlling the defect (residual) in the numerical solution of nonstiff initial value problems were given in [D. J. Higham, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 26 (1989), pp. 1175-1183 ]. This work describes an alternative approach based on Hermite-Birkhoff interpolation. The new approach has two main advantagesmit is applicable to Runge-Kutta schemes of any order, and it gives rise to a defect of the optimum asymptotic order of accuracy. For a particular Runge-Kutta formula the asymptotic analysis is verified numerically.
Key words. Runge-Kutta, defect, residual, backward error, Hermite-Birkhoff interpolation AMS(MOS)subject classification. 65L05
1. Introduction. This work deals with the control of errors in the numerical solution of the nonstiff initial value problem
,
y’(x) =f(x, y(x)), y(a)=yaR a
