Stepsize selection for tolerance proportionality in explicit Runge–Kutta codes |
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Authors: | M. Calvo D.J. Higham J.I. Montijano L. Rández |
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Affiliation: | (1) Departamento de Matemática Aplicada, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain;(2) Department of Mathematics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, G1 1XH, Scotland, UK |
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Abstract: | The potential for adaptive explicit Runge–Kutta (ERK) codes to produce global errors that decrease linearly as a function of the error tolerance is studied. It is shown that this desirable property may not hold, in general, if the leading term of the locally computed error estimate passes through zero. However, it is also shown that certain methods are insensitive to a vanishing leading term. Moreover, a new stepchanging policy is introduced that, at negligible extra cost, ensures a robust global error behaviour. The results are supported by theoretical and numerical analysis on widely used formulas and test problems. Overall, the modified stepchanging strategy allows a strong guarantee to be attached to the complete numerical process. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. |
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Keywords: | initial value problems Runge– Kutta methods stepsize control 65L05 |
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