Related papers: On the non-global linear stability and spurious fi…

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…

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…

Higher-order time integration methods that unconditionally preserve the positivity and linear invariants of the underlying differential equation system cannot belong to the class of general linear methods. This poses a major challenge for…

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 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…

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…

We prove that Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for numerical integration of arbitrarily large systems of Ordinary Differential Equations are linearly stable. Standard stability arguments -- based on spectral analysis, resolvent condition or strong…

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…

The local stability and convergence for Model Predictive Control (MPC) of unconstrained nonlinear dynamics based on a linear time-invariant plant model is studied. Based on the long-time behavior of the solution of the Riccati Differential…

Stabilized Runge-Kutta methods are especially efficient for the numerical solution of large systems of stiff nonlinear differential equations because they are fully explicit. For semi-discrete parabolic problems, for instance, stabilized…

Motivated by studies on fully discrete numerical schemes for linear hyperbolic conservation laws, we present a framework on analyzing the strong stability of explicit Runge-Kutta (RK) time discretizations for semi-negative autonomous linear…

A time discretization method is called strongly stable, if the norm of its numerical solution is nonincreasing. It is known that, even for linear semi-negative problems, many explicit Runge--Kutta (RK) methods fail to preserve this…

In this note, we connect two different topics from linear algebra and numerical analysis: hypocoercivity of semi-dissipative matrices and strong stability for explicit Runge--Kutta schemes. Linear autonomous ODE systems with a non-coercive…

This paper deals with stability of classical Runge-Kutta collocation methods. When such methods are embedded in linearly implicit methods as developed in [12] and used in [13] for the time integration of nonlinear evolution PDEs, the…

With this short note, we close a gap in the linear stability theory of block predictor-corrector Runge-Kutta schemes originally proposed for the parallel solution of ODEs.

Additive Runge-Kutta methods designed for preserving highly accurate solutions in mixed-precision computation were proposed and analyzed in 4. These specially designed methods use reduced precision for the implicit computations and full…

In this paper, we construct explicit nonstandard Runge-Kutta (ENRK) methods which have higher accuracy order and preserve two important properties of autonomous dynamical systems, namely, the positivity and linear stability. These methods…

In this paper we investigate the stability properties of the so-called gBBKS and GeCo methods, which belong to the class of nonstandard schemes and preserve the positivity as well as all linear invariants of the underlying system of…

Many important initial value problems have the property that energy is non-increasing in time. Energy stable methods, also referred to as strongly stable methods, guarantee the same property discretely. We investigate requirements for…