Nichtlineare Stabilität und Phasenuntersuchung adaptiver Nyström- Runge-Kutta-Methoden (Nonlinear stability and phase analysis for adaptive Nyström-Runge-Kutta methods) (Q1060819)

The stability of adaptive Nyström-Runge-Kutta procedures is studied for a wide class of nonlinear stiff systems of second order differential equations. We show that for a large class of semi-discrete hyperbolic and parabolic problems the restriction of the stepsize is not due to the stiffness of the differential equation. Furthermore we use the scalar test equation \(y''=-\omega^ 2y+q\cdot e^{iv(t-t_ 0)}\) to derive conditions which ensure that the numerical forced oscillation is in phase with the analytical forced oscillation. The order of adaptive Nyström- Runge-Kutta methods (with a stability-matrix based on a diagonal Padé- approximation) for which the forced oscillation is in phase with its analytical counterpart cannot be greater than two. This barrier of order is not true for r-stage implicit Nyström methods of order \(p=2r\).