Solving DDEs in Matlab (Q5939853)

The background of a Matlab procedure, dde234, to solve delay differential equations (DDEs) with constant delays is described. The main features of this new procedure are discontinuity tracking and event location. Runge-Kutta triples are extended in order to solve with them DDEs. The uniform convergence and the stability of the numerical scheme is proved. The problem of long and short delays relative to the step size of the numerical scheme is also considered. The numerical examples show the efficiency of the new proposal.