An extension of B-convergence for Runge-Kutta methods (Q1184012)

The well-known concepts of \(B\)-stability and \(B\)-convergence for the analysis of one-step methods applied to stiff initial value problems suffer from considerable restrictions, e.g. not even linear systems with time-dependent coefficients are satisfactorily covered. In this paper the \(B\)-convergence theory for implicit Runge-Kutta methods is extended as to be valid for a class of non-autonomous weakly nonlinear stiff systems. Unique solvability of the system of algebraic equations is shown, and global error bounds are derived.