A four-stage multiderivative explicit Runge-Kutta method for the solution of first order ordinary differential equations

Abstract

The development of numerical methods for the solution of initial value problems in ordinary differential equation have turned out to be a very rapid research area in recent decades due to the difficulties encountered in finding solutions to some mathematical models composed into differential equations from real life situations. Researchers have in recent times, used higher derivatives in the derivation of numerical methods to produce totally new ways of solving these equations. In this article, a new Runge-Kutta type methods with reduced number of function evaluations in the increment function is constructed, analyzed and implemented. This proposed method border on the use of higher derivatives up to the second derivative in the ki terms of Runge-Kutta method in order to achieve a higher order of accuracy. The qualitative features: local truncation error, consistency, convergence and stability of the new method were investigated and established. Numerical examples were also performed on some initial value problems to confirm the accuracy of the new method and compared with some existing methods of which the numerical results show that the new method competes favorably.