Variable-stepsize Chebyshev-type methods for the integration of second-order I.V.P.'s

  • Authors:
  • Higinio Ramos;Jesús Vigo-Aguiar

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela Politécnica Superior, Campus Viriato, Zamora, Spain;Escuela Politécnica Superior, Campus Viriato, Zamora, Spain and Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Panovsky and Richardson [A family of implicit Chebyshev methods for the numerical integration of second-order differential equations, J. Comput. Appl. Math. 23 (1988) 35-51] presented a method based on Chebyshev approximations for numerically solving the problem y^''=f(x,y), being the steplength constant. Coleman and Booth [Analysis of a Family of Chebyshev Methods for y^''=f(x,y), J. Comput. Appl. Math. 44 (1992) 95-114] made an analysis of the above method and suggested the convenience to design a variable steplength implementation. As far as we know this goal has not been achieved until now. Later on we extended the above method (this journal, 2003), and obtained a scheme for numerically solving the equation y^''-2gy^'+(g^2+w^2)=f(x,y). The question of how to extend these formulas to variable stepsize procedures is the primary topic of this paper.