ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 3, Number 2, 2000, 105 - 112

 

A Variable Step-Size Algorithm
for the Runge-Kutta Methods

Petre BAZAVAN
Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
A.~I.~Cuza 13, 1100 Craiova, Romania
E-mail: bazavan@yahoo.com

Abstract.
The convergence of the Runge-Kutta methods with variable step-size, in certain conditions, is proved. An algorithm for solving ordinary differential equations (ODEs), obtained from the Runge-Kutta method using a variable step-size is given. The convergence of this new method is deduced. Finally, trajectories for two dynamical systems are used to compare the new method with the classical methods.