Stability of IMEX Runge-Kutta methods for delay differential equations

  • Authors:
  • Toshiyuki Koto

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Science, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Stability of IMEX (implicit-explicit) Runge-Kutta methods applied to delay differential equations (DDEs) is studied on the basis of the scalar test equation du/dt=@lu(t)+@mu(t-@t), where @t is a constant delay and @l,@m are complex parameters. More specifically, P-stability regions of the methods are defined and analyzed in the same way as in the case of the standard Runge-Kutta methods. A new IMEX method which possesses a superior stability property for DDEs is proposed. Some numerical examples which confirm the results of our analysis are presented.