Obrechkoff methods having additional parameters for general second-order differential equations (Q1356991)

A class of two-step implicit methods with higher-order derivatives of \(y\) for general second-order initial value problems is developed. The methods of this family contains free parameters which are determined so that the methods become absolutely stable when applied to the scalar test equation. Numerical results for some general second-order differential equations indicate that these new methods are absolutely stable and are of order \(O(h^4)\), \(O(h^6)\) and \(O(h^8)\).