New stability results for Runge-Kutta methods adapted to delay differential equations (Q1567648)

This paper deals with new results on the stability of numerical schemes for solving delay differential equations, based on Runge-Kutta methods. The author considers a well-known linear test problem and shows that under some mild conditions the numerical scheme behaves stably at each point \((x,y)\) in its stability region \(S\). If the scheme satisfies three further, more restrictive conditions, then the error growth can be bounded linearly in \(n\) and \(m\) uniformly for all points in the stability region, where \(n\) is the number of timesteps and \(m\approx \tau h^{-1}\), \(\tau\) is the delay, \(h\) the stepsize.