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We introduce a class of high order accurate, semi-implicit Runge-Kutta schemes in the general setting of evolution equations that arise as gradient flow for a cost function, possibly with respect to an inner product that depends on the…
Runge-Kutta (RK) methods may exhibit order reduction when applied to certain stiff problems. While fully implicit RK schemes exist that avoid order reduction via high-stage order, DIRK (diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta) schemes are…
We show that existing Runge-Kutta methods for ordinary differential equations (odes) can be modified to solve stochastic differential equations (sdes) with strong solutions provided that appropriate changes are made to the way stepsizes are…
Finite element discretization of time dependent problems also require effective time-stepping schemes. While implicit Runge-Kutta methods provide favorable accuracy and stability problems, they give rise to large and complicated systems of…
An 11-dimensional family of embedded (4, 5) pairs of explicit 9-stage Runge-Kutta methods with an interpolant of order 5 is derived. Two optimized for efficiency pairs are presented.
A recently developed high-order implicit shock tracking (HOIST) framework for resolving discontinuous solutions of inviscid, steady conservation laws [41, 43] is extended to the unsteady case. Central to the framework is an optimization…
We introduce a second-order time discretization method for stiff kinetic equations. The method is asymptotic-preserving (AP) -- can capture the Euler limit without numerically resolving the small Knudsen number; and positivity-preserving --…
In practical computation with Runge--Kutta methods, the stage equations are not satisfied exactly, due to roundoff errors, algebraic solver errors, and so forth. We show by example that propagation of such errors within a single step can…
Finite differences and Runge-Kutta time stepping schemes used in Computational AeroAcoustics simulations are often optimized for low dispersion and dissipation (e.g. DRP or LDDRK schemes) when applied to linear problems in order to…
We propose an implementation of symplectic implicit Runge-Kutta schemes for highly accurate numerical integration of non-stiff Hamiltonian systems based on fixed point iteration. Provided that the computations are done in a given floating…
Strong stability is a property of time integration schemes for ODEs that preserve temporal monotonicity of solutions in arbitrary (inner product) norms. It is proved that explicit Runge--Kutta schemes of order $p\in 4\mathbb{N}$ with $s=p$…
In this master thesis we have compared different second order stabilized explicit Runge-Kutta methods when applied to the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations by means of a projection method and a differential algebraic approach. We…
The self-consistent method, first introduced by Kuramoto, is a powerful tool for the analysis of the steady states of coupled oscillator networks. For second-order oscillator networks complications to the application of the self-consistent…
The recently-introduced relaxation approach for Runge-Kutta methods can be used to enforce conservation of energy in the integration of Hamiltonian systems. We study the behavior of implicit and explicit relaxation Runge-Kutta methods in…
This work generalizes the additively partitioned Runge-Kutta methods by allowing for different stage values as arguments of different components of the right hand side. An order conditions theory is developed for the new family of…
In this paper, we extend the Paired-Explicit Runge-Kutta schemes by Vermeire et. al. to fourth-order of consistency. Based on the order conditions for partitioned Runge-Kutta methods we motivate a specific form of the Butcher arrays which…
Direct shooting is an efficient method to solve numerical optimal control. It utilizes the Runge-Kutta scheme to discretize a continuous-time optimal control problem making the problem solvable by nonlinear programming solvers. However,…
In this work, we present approaches to rigorously certify $A$- and $A(\alpha)$-stability in Runge-Kutta methods through the solution of convex feasibility problems defined by linear matrix inequalities. We adopt two approaches. The first is…
In this paper, we perform stability analysis for a class of second and third order accurate strong-stability-preserving modified Patankar Runge-Kutta (SSPMPRK) schemes, which were introduced in [4,5] and can be used to solve convection…
We study diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta (DIRK) schemes when applied to abstract evolution problems that fit into the Gelfand-triple framework. We introduce novel stability notions that are well-suited to this setting and provide simple,…