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Numerical solution of ordinary differential equations / Kendall E. Atkinson, Weimin Han, David Stewart.

Math/Physics/Astronomy Library QA372 .A85 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Atkinson, Kendall E.
Contributor:
Han, Weimin.
Stewart, David, 1961-
Series:
Pure and applied mathematics (John Wiley & Sons : Unnumbered)
Pure and applied mathematics
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Differential equations--Numerical solutions.
Differential equations.
Physical Description:
xii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Place of Publication:
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, [2009]
Contents:
1 Theory of differential equations: An introduction 3
1.1 General solvability theory 7
1.2 Stability of the initial value problem 8
1.3 Direction fields 11
Problems 13
2 Euler's method 15
2.1 Definition of Euler's method 16
2.2 Error analysis of Euler's method 21
2.3 Asymptotic error analysis 26
2.3.1 Richardson extrapolation 28
2.4 Numerical stability 29
2.4.1 Rounding error accumulation 30
Problems 32
3 Systems of differential equations 37
3.1 Higher-order differential equations 39
3.2 Numerical methods for systems 42
Problems 46
4 The backward Euler method and the trapezoidal method 49
4.1 The backward Euler method 51
4.2 The trapezoidal method 56
Problems 62
5 Taylor and Runge-Kutta methods 67
5.1 Taylor methods 68
5.2 Runge-Kutta methods 70
5.2.1 A general framework for explicit Runge-Kutta methods 73
5.3 Convergence, stability, and asymptotic error 75
5.3.1 Error prediction and control 78
5.4 Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg methods 80
5.5 MATLAB codes 82
5.6 Implicit Runge-Kutta methods 86
5.6.1 Two-point collocation methods 87
Problems 89
6 Multistep methods 95
6.1 Adams-Bashforth methods 96
6.2 Adams-Moulton methods 101
6.3 Computer codes 104
6.3.1 Matlab Ode codes 105
Problems 106
7 General error analysis for multistep methods 111
7.1 Truncation error 112
7.2 Convergence 115
7.3 A general error analysis 117
7.3.1 Stability theory 118
7.3.2 Convergence theory 122
7.3.3 Relative stability and week stability 122
Problems 123
8 Stiff differential equations 127
8.1 The method of lines for a parabolic equation 131
8.1.1 MATLAB programs for the method of lines 135
8.2 Backward differentiation formulas 140
8.3 Stability regions for multistep methods 141
8.4 Additional sources of difficulty 143
8.4.1 A-stability and L-stability 143
8.4.2 Time-varying problems and stability 145
8.5 Solving the finite-difference method 145
8.6 Computer codes 146
Problems 147
9 Implicit RK methods for stiff differential equations 149
9.1 Families of implicit Runge-Kutta methods 149
9.2 Stability of Runge-Kutta methods 154
9.3 Order reduction 156
9.4 Runge-Kutta methods for stiff equations in practice 160
Problems 161
10 Differential algebraic equations 163
10.1 Initial conditions and drift 165
10.2 DAEs as stiff differential equations 168
10.3 Numerical issues: higher index problems 169
10.4 Backward differentiation methods for DAEs 173
10.4.1 Index 1 problems 173
10.4.2 Index 2 problems 174
10.5 Runge-Kutta methods for DAEs 175
10.5.1 Index 1 problems 176
10.5.2 Index 2 problems 179
10.6 Index three problems from mechanics 181
10.6.1 Runge-Kutta methods for mechanical index 3 systems 183
10.7 Higher index DAEs 184
Problems 185
11 Two-point boundary value problems 187
11.1 A finite-difference method 188
11.1.1 Convergence 190
11.1.2 A numerical example 190
11.1.3 Boundary conditions involving the derivative 194
11.2 Nonlinear two-point boundary value problems 195
11.2.1 Finite difference methods 197
11.2.2 Shooting methods 201
11.2.3 Collocation methods 204
11.2.4 Other methods and problems 206
Problems 206
12 Volterra integral equations 211
12.1 Solvability theory 212
12.1.1 Special equations 214
12.2 Numerical methods 215
12.2.1 The trapezoidal method 216
12.2.2 Error for the trapezoidal method 217
12.2.3 General schema for numerical methods 219
12.3 Numerical methods: Theory 223
12.3.1 Numerical stability 225
12.3.2 Practical numerical stability 227
Problems 231.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-249) and index.
ISBN:
9780470042946
047004294X
OCLC:
243960534

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