We consider the construction of a special family of Runge–Kutta (RK) collocation methods based on intra-step nodal points of Chebyshev–Gauss–Lobatto type, with A-stability and stiffly accurate characteristics. This feature with its inherent implicitness makes them suitable for solving stiff initial-value problems. In fact, the two simplest cases consist in the well-known trapezoidal rule and th...

Implicit integration schemes for ODEs, such as Runge-Kutta and Runge-Kutta-Nyström methods, are widely used in mathematics and engineering to numerically solve ordinary differential equations. Every integration method requires one to choose a step-size, h, for the integration. If h is too large or too small the efficiency of an implicit scheme is relatively low. As every implicit integration sc...

We study the linear stability of the fifth-order Weighted Essentially Non-Oscillatory spatial discretization (WENO5) combined with explicit time stepping applied to the one-dimensional advection equation. We show that it is not necessary for the stability domain of the time integrator to include a part of the imaginary axis. In particular, we show that the combination of WENO5 with either the f...

In this paper we consider a new fourth-order method of BDF-type for solving stiff initial-value problems, based on the interval approximation of the true solution by truncated Chebyshev series. It is shown that the method may be formulated in an equivalent way as a Runge–Kutta method having stage order four. Themethod thus obtained have good properties relatives to stability including an unboun...

We prove that to every rational function R(z) satisfying R(−z)R(z) = 1, there exists a symplectic Runge-Kutta method with R(z) as stability function. Moreover, we give a surprising relation between the poles of R(z) and the weights of the quadrature formula associated with a symplectic Runge-Kutta method.

In this paper, we explore the Lax-Wendroff (LW) type time discretization as an alternative procedure to the high order Runge-Kutta time discretization adopted for the high order essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) Lagrangian schemes developed in [2, 4]. The LW time discretization is based on a Taylor expansion in time, coupled with a local CauchyKowalewski procedure to utilize the partial differe...

This paper is concerned with time-stepping numerical methods for computing stii semi-discrete systems of ordinary diierential equations for transient hyper-sonic ows with thermo-chemical nonequilibrium. The stiiness of the equations is mainly caused by the vis-cous ux terms across the boundary layers and by the source terms modeling nite-rate thermo-chemical processes. Implicit methods are need...

We describe the derivation of order conditions, without restrictions on stage order, for general linear methods for ordinary differential equations. This derivation is based on the extension of Albrecht approach proposed in the context of Runge-Kutta and composite and linear cyclic methods. This approach was generalized by Jackiewicz and Tracogna to two-step Runge-Kutta methods, by Jackiewicz a...