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NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS
Volume 53, Issue 2-3, Pages 171-194Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11075-009-9349-1
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Explicit methods; Two-derivative Runge-Kutta methods; Rooted trees; Order conditions; Stage order; Pseudo stage order; Mildly stiff problems; Stability region
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The theory of Runge-Kutta methods for problems of the form y'aEuro parts per thousand= f(y) is extended to include the second derivative y''aEuro parts per thousand= g(y): = f'(y)f(y). We present an approach to the order conditions based on Butcher's algebraic theory of trees (Butcher, Math Comp 26:79-106, 1972), and derive methods that take advantage of cheap computations of the second derivatives. Only explicit methods are considered here where attention is given to the construction of methods that involve one evaluation of f and many evaluations of g per step. Methods with stages up to five and of order up to seven including some embedded pairs are presented. The first part of the paper discusses a theoretical formulation used for the derivation of these methods which are also of wider applicability. The second part presents experimental results for non-stiff and mildly stiff problems. The methods include those with the computation of one second derivative (plus many first derivatives) per step, and embedded methods for changing stepsize as well as those involving one first derivative (plus many second derivatives) per step. The experiments have been performed on standard problems and comparisons made with some standard explicit Runge-Kutta methods.
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