Stability of Runge-Kutta methods for delay integro-differential equations

  • Authors:
  • Toshiyuki Koto

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We study stability of Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for delay integro-differential equations with a constant delay on the basis of the linear equation du/dt = Lu(t) + Mu(t - τ) + K ∫t - τt u(θ)dθ, where L,M,K are constant complex matrices. In particular, we show that the same result as in the case K = 0 (Koto, BIT 34 (1994) 262-267) holds for this test equation, i.e., every A-stable RK method preserves the delay-independent stability of the exact solution whenever a step-size of the form h = τ/m is used, where m is a positive integer.