Variable-Stepsize Explicit Two-Step Runge-Kutta Methods

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This paper studies the order properties of a general class of variable step, explicit two-step Runge-Kutta methods (in which two sets of intermediate approximations are used over successive steps) using the general order theory of multivalue methods. Simplifying assumptions are used to construct methods of order \(p\) (\(\leq 5\)) with embedded continuous Runge-Kutta methods of order \(p-1\) which provide error estimates without additional function evaluations. It is shown that for each continuous Runge-Kutta method of order \(p-1 \geq 2\) there exists a variable two-step method of order \(p\) with the same coefficient matrix. Numerical results in a companion report for (3,4) and (4,5) pairs suggest that this approach is almost as reliable as Richardson extrapolation but much more efficient.











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