Cheg 258 - Lecture Notes - April 26, 2000

Announcements

• There is no homework assigned today.

Class notes

The main points of the lecture were

• Higher Order Integration Methods

Goals:

• Solve differential equations using high order explicit techniques.
• Solve stiff ODE's using implicit techniques.

Reading

• The class notes and Ch. 8 of Kahaner and Ch. 11 of Hanna.

Question of the Day:

• Are Runge-Kutta methods suitable for stiff equations?
• Discuss advantages and disadvantages of using the Trapezoidal Rule method as opposed to the 2-stage Runge-Kutta method.

Matlab Example Codes

example 32