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- From: mhosea@seas.smu.edu (Mike Hosea)
- Subject: Re: Numerical solution of ODEs with Bulirsch-Stoer extrapolation
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 17:32:03 GMT
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- In article <C1H5uF.5HC@rice.edu> dharry@cyclone.rice.edu (Dennis Harry) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.054301.455@seas.smu.edu>, mhosea@seas.smu.edu (Mike Hosea) writes:
- >
- >|> The reason extrapolation methods get very accurate results with large step
- >|> sizes is because they can use very high order approximations. However,
- >|> my research has shown that when compared to conventional Runge-Kutta
- >|> and Adams methods of the same order, the extrapolation formulas are not
- >|> as efficient in terms of function evaluations per unit step.
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >Yes, but the point is that they may take much larger steps. Ideally,
- >their relative inefficiency per unit step is (more than) offset by having
- >to take fewer steps?
-
- No, it's not. Not when you consider the competition. It is true that
- an extrapolation code may perform better than a fixed order Runge-Kutta
- code when the tolerance is very stringent, but this is only because they
- can go to higher order. However, like the extrapolation formulas, the
- Adams-Moulton formulas are variable order, and at each order (especially
- high orders) the Adams-Moulton formulas are much more efficient. If you
- compare the performances of codes you may not see this since the Adams
- code might not attept to use the higher orders--this would have nothing
- to do with the methods themselves. Anyway, I am not arguing from intuition.
- Check out the mathematics in my report or any reputable numerical
- comparison like
-
- L.F. Shampine and L.S. Baca 1986 "Fixed versus variable order
- Runge-Kutta", ACM TOMS, 12, no. pp. 1-23.
- --
- Regards,
- Mike Hosea (mhosea@seas.smu.edu)
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