Accession Number:

AD0601064

Title:

REPEATED EXTRAPOLATION TO THE LIMIT IN THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS.

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV LOS ANGELES

Personal Author(s):

• Gragg,William Bryant

Report Date:

1964-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

111.0

Abstract:

Let the initial-value problem y fx,y, x epsilon a,b , ya s, for a system of differential equations be solved numerically by a one-step method or by a linear multistep method see Henrici, Discrete Variable Methods in Ordinary Differential Equations, Wiley, 1962. There results a family of sequences y sub n h which approximate the exact solution y x at the mesh points x x sub n a nh. The parameter h plays an essential role in the construction of the y sub n h. Under suitable regularity conditions on f it is proved that y sub n h has an asymptotic expansion in powers of h, valid as h approaches 0 and n approaches infinity in such a manner that x a nh remains fixed in a,b . These results provide a rigorous justification for the algorithm of repeated extrapolation to the limit in which successive terms of the expansion for the error y sub n h - yx are removed by making use of the knowledge of the approximate solutions computed with the values h 2 to the minus m power h sub O, m 0,1, . . . . The convergence properties of the algorithm are discussed in some generality and the theory is verified experimentally for a number of classical numerical methods. Author

Descriptors:

• (*NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES
• DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS)
• (*DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• NUMERICAL METHODS AND PROCEDURES)
• SERIES(MATHEMATICS)
• DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS
• MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
• NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)

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Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE