Implicit one-step block hybrid third-derivative method for the direct solution of initial value problems of second-order ordinary differential equations (Q670458)

Summary: A new one-step block method with generalized three hybrid points for solving initial value problems of second-order ordinary differential equations directly is proposed. In deriving this method, a power series approximate function is interpolated at \(\{x_n, x_{n + r} \}\) while its second and third derivatives are collocated at all points \(\{x_n, x_{n + r}, x_{n + s}, x_{n + t}, x_{n + 1} \}\) in the given interval. The proposed method is then tested on initial value problems of second-order ordinary differential equations solved by other methods previously. The numerical results confirm the superiority of the new method to the existing methods in terms of accuracy.