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Many important differential equations model quantities whose value must remain positive or stay in some bounded interval. These bounds may not be preserved when the model is solved numerically. We propose to ensure positivity or other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-10 Stephan Nüßlein , Hendrik Ranocha , David I Ketcheson

In this work, we introduce high-order Basis-Update & Galerkin (BUG) integrators based on explicit Runge-Kutta methods for large-scale matrix differential equations. These dynamical low-rank integrators extend the BUG integrator to arbitrary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Fabio Nobile , Sébastien Riffaud

Fractional-step methods are a popular and powerful divide-and-conquer approach for the numerical solution of differential equations. When the integrators of the fractional steps are Runge--Kutta methods, such methods can be written as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-25 Raymond J. Spiteri , Siqi Wei

In this paper, a recently published method [Hussain, Ismail, Senua, Solving directly special fourth-order ordinary differential equations using Runge-Kutta type method, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 306 (2016) 179-199] for solving fourth-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Maciej Jaromin

A posteriori error estimates based on residuals can be used for reliable error control of numerical methods. Here, we consider them in the context of ordinary differential equations and Runge-Kutta methods. In particular, we take the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Hendrik Ranocha , Jan Giesselmann

Based on reasonable testing model problems, we study the preservation by symplectic Runge-Kutta method (SRK) and symplectic partitioned Runge-Kutta method (SPRK) of structures for fixed points of linear Hamiltonian systems. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-02-18 Xiaohua Ding , Hongyu Liu , Zaijiu Shang , Geng Sun , Lingshu Wang

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Thomas Izgin , Stefan Kopecz , Andreas Meister , Amandine Schilling

In [Baeza et al., Computers and Fluids, 159, 156--166 (2017)] a new method for the numerical solution of ODEs is presented. This methods can be regarded as an approximate formulation of the Taylor methods and it follows an approach that has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Antonio Baeza , Sebastiano Boscarino , Pep Mulet , Giovanni Russo , David Zorío

Applied to the master equation, the usual numerical integration methods, such as Runge-Kutta, become inefficient when the rates associated with various transitions differ by several orders of magnitude. We introduce an integration scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Dickman

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Thomas Izgin , Stefan Kopecz , Andreas Meister

We study the stability of explicit Runge-Kutta methods for high order Lagrangian finite element approximation of linear parabolic equations and establish bounds on the largest eigenvalue of the system matrix which determines the largest…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-16 Weizhang Huang , Lennard Kamenski , Jens Lang

The main theoretical obstacle to establish the original energy dissipation laws of Runge-Kutta methods for phase-field equations is to verify the maximum norm boundedness of the stage solutions without assuming global Lipschitz continuity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Xuping Wang , Xuan Zhao , Hong-lin Liao

Classical convergence theory of Runge-Kutta methods assumes that the time step is small relative to the Lipschitz constant of the ordinary differential equation (ODE). For stiff problems, that assumption is often violated, and a problematic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Steven B. Roberts , David Shirokoff , Abhijit Biswas , Benjamin Seibold

This work deals with two groups of spectral analysis results for matrices arising in fully implicit Runge-Kutta methods used for linear time-dependent partial differential equations. These were applied for different formulations of the same…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Michal Outrata

Strong stability preserving (SSP) Runge-Kutta methods are often desired when evolving in time problems that have two components that have very different time scales. Where the SSP property is needed, it has been shown that implicit and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-15 Sigal Gottlieb , Zachary J. Grant , Leah Isherwood

A mixed accuracy framework for Runge--Kutta methods presented in [Grant, JSC 2022] has been shown to speed up the computation in diagonally implicit Runge--Kutta (DIRK) methods by using less expensive low accuracy approaches for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-29 John Driscoll , Sigal Gottlieb , Zachary J. Grant , César Herrera , Tej Sai Kakumanu , Monica Stephens

In this paper we derive and analyze the properties of explicit singly diagonal implicit Runge-Kutta (ESDIRK) integration methods. We discuss the principles for construction of Runge-Kutta methods with embedded methods of different order for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 John Bagterp Jørgensen , Morten Rode Kristensen , Per Grove Thomsen

We consider the efficient numerical solution of coupled dynamical systems, consisting of a small nonlinear part and a large linear time invariant part, possibly stemming from spatial discretization of an underlying partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Herbert Egger , Vsevolod Shashkov , Kersten Schmidt

Runge-Kutta methods are a popular class of numerical methods for solving ordinary differential equations. Every Runge-Kutta method is characterized by two basic parameters: its order, which measures the accuracy of the solution it produces,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 David K. Zhang

We investigate the strong stability preserving (SSP) property of two-step Runge-Kutta (TSRK) methods. We prove that all SSP TSRK methods belong to a particularly simple subclass of TSRK methods, in which stages from the previous step are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-01-13 David I. Ketcheson , Sigal Gottlieb , Colin B. Macdonald