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The work deals with two major topics concerning the numerical analysis of Runge-Kutta-like (RK-like) methods, namely their stability and order of convergence. RK-like methods differ from additive RK methods in that their coefficients are…
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 paper stochastic partitioned Runge-Kutta (SPRK) methods are considered. A general order theory for SPRK methods based on stochastic B-series and multicolored, multishaped rooted trees is developed. The theory is applied to prove the…
Recently a new class of nonlinearly partitioned Runge--Kutta (NPRK) methods was proposed for nonlinearly partitioned systems of autonomous ordinary differential equations, $y' = F(y,y)$. The target class of problems are ones in which…
Explicit Runge--Kutta (RK) methods are susceptible to a reduction in the observed order of convergence when applied to initial-boundary value problem with time-dependent boundary conditions. We study conditions on explicit RK methods that…
When applied to stiff, linear differential equations with time-dependent forcing, Runge-Kutta methods can exhibit convergence rates lower than predicted by the classical order condition theory. Commonly, this order reduction phenomenon is…
In \cite{BDM2003} the modified Patankar-Euler and modified Patankar-Runge-Kutta schemes were introduced to solve positive and conservative systems of ordinary differential equations. These modifications of the forward Euler scheme and…
The conditions for a Runge--Kutta method to be of order $p$ with $p\ge 5$ for a scalar non-autonomous problem are a proper subset of the order conditions for a vector problem. Nevertheless, Runge--Kutta methods that were derived…
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…
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…
This work introduces a new class of Runge-Kutta methods for solving nonlinearly partitioned initial value problems. These new methods, named nonlinearly partitioned Runge-Kutta (NPRK), generalize existing additive and component-partitioned…
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…
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…
Runge-Kutta (RK) methods may exhibit order reduction when applied to stiff problems. For linear problems with time-independent operators, order reduction can be avoided if the method satisfies certain weak stage order (WSO) conditions,…
We provide a note on continuous-stage Runge-Kutta methods (csRK) for solving initial value problems of first-order ordinary differential equations. Such methods, as an interesting and creative extension of traditional Runge-Kutta (RK)…
Constructing explicit Runge--Kutta (ERK) methods with as few stages as possible for a given order is a classical problem in numerical analysis. In this work, we introduce a $Q$/$D$-space framework of sufficient order conditions for ERK…
This work constructs a new class of multirate schemes based on the recently developed generalized additive Runge-Kutta (GARK) methods (Sandu and Guenther, 2013). Multirate schemes use different step sizes for different components and for…
A wide range of physical phenomena exhibit auxiliary admissibility criteria, such as conservation of entropy or various energies, which arise implicitly under the exact solution of their governing PDEs. However, standard temporal schemes,…
This work constructs the first-ever sixth-order exponential Runge--Kutta (ExpRK) methods for the time integration of stiff parabolic PDEs. First, we leverage the exponential B-series theory to restate the stiff order conditions for ExpRK…
Recently, a stability theory has been developed to study the linear stability of modified Patankar--Runge--Kutta (MPRK) schemes. This stability theory provides sufficient conditions for a fixed point of an MPRK scheme to be stable as well…