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A Priori Estimates for the Global Error Committed by Runge-Kutta Methods for a Nonlinear Oscillator

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2010

Jitse Niesen
Jitse Niesen
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge CB3 OWA [email protected], http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/na/people/Jitse/index.html

Abstract

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The Alekseev–Gröbner lemma is combined with the theory of modified equations to obtain an a priori estimate for the global error of numerical integrators. This estimate is correct up to a remainder term of order h2p, where h denotes the step size and p the order of the method. It is applied to nonlinear oscillators whose behaviour is described by the Emden–Fowler equation y″+tνyn=0. The result shows explicitly that later terms sometimes blow up faster than the leading term of order hp, necessitating the whole computation. This is supported by numerical experiments.

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Research Article
Information
LMS Journal of Computation and Mathematics , Volume 6 , 2003 , pp. 18 - 28
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Copyright © London Mathematical Society 2003

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