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NUMERICAL
METHODS FOR ORDINARY
DIFFERENTIAL
EQUATIONS
give
a formula
for
fJ
in terms of a
1
.
(It
is
not necessary to construct a
Peano kernel or influence function for the method.) How should a
1
be
chosen if the truncation error
is
to be minimized, subject to the
stability restriction from part (b)?
(d) Consider the region of absolute stability for the methods of part (a).
What
is
this region for the method of part
(c)
that minimizes the
truncation error coefficient
fJ?
Give another value of a
1
that
gives
a
stable method and that has a larger region of absolute stability.
Discuss finding an optimal region by choosing
a
1
approximately.
33. (a) Find all explicit fourth-order formulas of the form
(b) Show that every such method
is
unstable.
34. Derive
an
implicit fourth-order multistep method, other than those given in
the text. Make it be relatively stable.
35. For the polynomial
p(r)
=
rP+l-
L.gajrp-j'
assume
aj
~
0,
0
5;j
5:,
p,
and L.gaj =
1.
Show
that the roots of
p(r)
will satisfy the root condition
(6.8.9) and (6.8.10). This shows directly that Theorem 6.6
is
a corollary of
Theorem
6.8.
36. (a) Consider methods
of
the form
p
Yn+l
= Yn-q + h L
bJ(xn-j•
Yn-j)
j=
-1
with q
~
1.
Show
that such methods do not satisfy the strong root
condition.
As
a consequence, most such methods are only weakly
stable.
(b) Find an example with q = 1 that
is
relatively stable.
37. Show that the region of absolute stability for the trapezoidal method
is
the
set of all complex
hA
with Real (X) <
0.
38. Use the backward Euler method to solve the problem (6.8.51). Because the
equation is linear, the implicit equation for
Yn+l can be solved exactly.
Compare your results with those given in Table
6.17 for Euler's method.
39. Repeat Problem
38 using the second-order
BDF
formula (6.9.6). To
find
y
1
for use in (6.8.6), use the backward Euler method.
40. Recall the model equation (6.8.50) where it is regarded as a perturbation of
Euler's method
(6.8.46). For the special case
Y"(x)
=constant,
analyze the