Papers and Miscellaneous


Multiple Shooting for Unstructured Nonlinear Differential-Algebraic Equations of Arbitrary Index
Peter Kunkel, Volker Mehrmann & Ronald Stöver
SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis, Vol. 42(6), pp. 2277-2297, 2005.
Copyright by SIAM. The original publication is available on SIAM Journals online.
See also Technical Report 751-2002, Institute of Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin, 2002.
Abstract We study multiple shooting methods for the numerical solution of nonlinear boundary value problems for unstructured nonlinear systems of differential-algebraic equations with arbitrary index. We give a concergence analysis and demonstrate the results with some numerical examples.
Key words Differential-algebraic equations, boundary value problems, multiple shooting
AMS(MOS) subject classifications 65L10, 65L80


Symmetric Collocation for Unstructured Nonlinear Differential-Algebraic Equations of Arbitrary Index
Peter Kunkel, Volker Mehrmann & Ronald Stöver
Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 98(2), pp. 277-304, 2004.
Copyright by Springer-Verlag. The original publication is available on SpringerLink, DOI 10.1007/s00211-004-0534-9.
See also Berichte aus der Technomathematik, Report 02-12, November 2002.
Abstract We examine a class of symmetric collocation schemes for the solution of nonlinear boundary value problems for unstructured nonlinear systems of differential-algebraic equations with arbitrary index. We show that these schemes converge with the same orders as one would expect for ordinary differential equations. In particular, we show superconvergence for a special choice of the collocation points. We demonstrate the efficiency of the new approach with some numerical examples.
Key words Differential-algebraic equations, boundary value problems, collocation methods, symmetric schemes
AMS(MOS) subject classifications 65L10, 65L80


Symmetric collocation methods for solving linear differential-algebraic boundary value problems
Peter Kunkel & Ronald Stöver
Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 91(3), pp. 475-501, 2002.
Copyright by Springer-Verlag. The original publication is available on SpringerLink, DOI 10.1007/s002110100315.
See also Berichte aus der Technomathematik, Report 00-15, September 2000.
Abstract We present symmetric collocation methods for linear differential-algebraic boundary value problems without restrictions on the index or the structure of the differential-algebraic equation. In particular, we do not require a separation into differential and algebraic solution components. Instead, we use the splitting into differential and algebraic equations (which arises naturally by index reduction techniques) and apply Gauß-type (for the differential part) and Lobatto-type (for the algebraic part) collocation schemes to obtain a symmetric method which guarantees consistent approximations at the mesh points. Under standard assumptions, we show solvability and stability of the discrete problem and determine its order of convergence. Moreover, we show superconvergence when using the combination of Gauß and Lobatto schemes and discuss the application of interpolation to reduce the number of function evaluations. Finally, we present some numerical comparisons to show the reliability and efficiency of the new methods.
Key words Differential-algebraic equations, boundary value problems, collocation methods, symmetric schemes
AMS(MOS) subject classifications 65L10


Collocation methods for solving linear differential-algebraic boundary value problems
Numerische Mathematik, Vol. 88(4), pp. 771-795, 2001.
Copyright by Springer-Verlag. The original publication is available on SpringerLink, DOI 10.1007/s002110000246.
See also Berichte aus der Technomathematik, Report 99-08, September 1999.
Abstract We consider boundary value problems for linear differential-algebraic equations with variable coefficients without any restriction for the index. A well known regularization procedure yields an equivalent index one problem with d differential and a=n-d algebraic equations. Collocation methods based on the regularized BVP approximate the solution x by a continuous piecewise polynomial of degree k and deliver, in particular, consistent approximations at mesh points by using the Radau schemes. Under weak assumptions the collocation problems are uniquely and stably solvable and, if the unique solution x is sufficiently smooth, convergence of order min(k+1,2k-1) and superconvergence at mesh points of order 2k-1 is shown. Finally, some numerical experiments illustrating these results are presented.
Key words Differential-algebraic equations, boundary value problems, collocation methods, Radau schemes
AMS(MOS) subject classifications 65L10


Numerische Lösung von linearen differential-algebraischen Randwertproblemen
Ph.D. thesis, Universität Bremen, January 1999.
Published by Logos-Verlag 1999


On a Conjugate Gradient-Type Method for Solving Complex Symmetric Linear Systems
Angelika Bunse-Gerstner & Ronald Stöver
Linear Algebra and its Applications , Vol. 287, pp. 105-123, 1999.
Abstract We consider large sparse linear systems Ax=b with complex symmetric coefficient matrices A=A^T which arise, e.g., from the discretization of partial differential equations with complex coefficients. For the solution of such systems we present a new conjugate gradient-type iterative method, CSYM, which is based on unitary equivalence transformations of A to symmetric tridiagonal form. An analysis of CSYM shows that its convergence depends on the singular values of A and that it has both, the minimal residual property and constant costs per iteration step. We compare the algorithm with other methods for solving large sparse complex symmetric systems.
Key words Complex symmetric , CG-type methods, unitary tridiagonalization
AMS(MOS) subject classifications 65F15


Matrixketten und Lineare differential-algbebraische Gleichungen
Diploma thesis, Universität Oldenburg, February 1995.
Published by Logos-Verlag 1997


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