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Modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta (MPRK) schemes are numerical methods for the solution of positive and conservative production-destruction systems. They adapt explicit Runge-Kutta schemes to ensure positivity and conservation irrespective of…
In this study, a family of second order process based modified Patankar Runge-Kutta schemes is proposed with both the mass and mole maintained in balance while preserving the positivity of density and pressure with the time step determined…
Production-destruction systems (PDS) of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are used to describe physical and biological reactions in nature. The considered quantities are subject to natural laws. Therefore, they preserve positivity and…
In recent years, many positivity-preserving schemes for initial value problems have been constructed by modifying a Runge--Kutta (RK) method by weighting the right-hand side of the system of differential equations with solution-dependent…
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…
Modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta (MPRK) methods preserve the positivity as well as conservativity of a production-destruction system (PDS) of ordinary differential equations for all time step sizes. As a result, higher order MPRK schemes do…
In this work modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta (MPRK) schemes up to order four are considered and equipped with a dense output formula of appropriate accuracy. Since these time integrators are conservative and positivity preserving for any time…
Since almost twenty years, modified Patankar--Runge--Kutta (MPRK) methods have proven to be efficient and robust numerical schemes that preserve positivity and conservativity of the production-destruction system irrespectively of the time…
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…
In this paper, two new families of fourth-order explicit exponential Runge--Kutta (ERK) methods with four stages are studied for solving first-order differential systems $y'(t)+My(t)=f(y(t))$. By comparing the Taylor series of the exact…
Positivity preservation of key physical quantities in the context of fluid flows, such as density and internal energy, is an essential property of a numerical scheme as otherwise the solution lacks physical relevance and has a not…
In this paper, we develop a general framework for constructing higher-order, unconditionally energy-stable exponential time differencing Runge-Kutta methods applicable to a range of gradient flows. Specifically, we identify conditions…
Explicit Runge-Kutta schemes with large stable step sizes are developed for integration of high order spectral difference spatial discretization on quadrilateral grids. The new schemes permit an effective time step that is substantially…
A practical and new Runge--Kutta numerical scheme for stochastic differential equations is explored. Numerical examples demonstrate the strong convergence of the method. The first order strong convergence is then proved using Ito integrals…
When one wishes to numerically solve an initial value problem, it is customary to rewrite it as an equivalent first-order system to which a method, usually from the class of Runge-Kutta methods, is applied. Directly treating higher-order…
The Butcher theory provides a powerful tool for analyzing order conditions of Runge-Kutta schemes for ordinary differential equations (ODEs); however, such a theory has not yet been well established for backward stochastic differential…
Patankar schemes have attracted increasing interest in recent years because they preserve the positivity of the analytical solution of a production-destruction system (PDS) irrespective of the chosen time step size. Although they are now of…
Modified Patankar schemes are linearly implicit time integration methods designed to be unconditionally positive and conservative. In the present work we extend the Patankar-type approach to linear multistep methods and prove that the…
A new approach for the construction of high order A-stable explicit integrators for ordinary differential equations (ODEs) is theoretically studied. Basically, the integrators are obtained by splitting, at each time step, the solution of…
Many important applications are modelled by differential equations with positive solutions. However, it remains an outstanding open problem to develop numerical methods that are both (i) of a high order of accuracy and (ii) capable of…