On bounding the errors in three Runge-Kutta type formulations (Q1081283)

The author addresses his attention to some Runge-Kutta techniques for the treatment of quite small systems of equations in which there exists a necessity for high resolution, but for no other specialized solution strategies (for instance variable step size). The author in this cases considers the total error involved at any step during the analysis of ordinary differential equations, he wants to bend the error with a single expression. The work illustrates a technique by which single-expression aposteriori error bounds may be determined in virtually any Runge-Kutta procedure. The technique is applied specifically to the Heun third-order method, the Kutta-Simpson three-eights procedure and the Kutta-Simpson one-third formula. The method isn't appropriate to analyze large systems of equations or those procedures in which the step size varies.