In this paper three pairs of embedded Runge–Kutta type methods for directly solving special third order ordinary differential equations (ODEs) of the form denoted as RKD methods are presented. The first is the RKD4(3) pair which is third order embedded in fourth-order method has the property first same as last (FSAL) whereby the last row of the coefficient matrix is equal to the vector output. ...

The entropy generation during hydromagnetic boundary layer flow of a viscous incompressible electrically conducting fluid due to radial stretching sheet with Newtonian heating in the presence of a transverse magnetic field and the thermal radiation has been analyzed. The governing equations are then solved numerically by using the fourth order Runge-Kutta method with shooting technique. The eff...

Based on the classical shell theory, the linear dynamic response of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) truncated conical shells resting on elastic foundations subjected to dynamic loads is presented. The truncated conical shells are reinforced by single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) that vary according to the linear functions of the shell thickness. The motio...

A nonlinear model of two-beam free-electron laser (FEL) in the absence of slippage is presented. The two beams are assumed to be cold with different energies and the fundamental resonance of the higher energy beam is at the third harmonic of lower energy beam. By using Maxwell’s equations and full Lorentz force equations of motion for the electron beams, coupled differential equations are deriv...

This paper is concerned with time-stepping numerical methods for computing stiff semi-discrete systems of ordinary differential equations for transient hypersonic flows with thermo-chemical nonequilibrium. The stiffness of the equations is mainly caused by the viscous flux terms across the boundary layers and by the source terms modeling finite-rate thermo-chemical processes. Implicit methods a...

Purely dispersive equations as the Korteweg-de Vries and the nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the limit of small dispersion have solutions to Cauchy problems with smooth initial data which develop a zone of rapid modulated oscillations in the region where the corresponding dispersionless equations have shocks or blowup. Fourth order time-stepping in combination with spectral methods is benefic...

Separable Hamiltonian systems of differential equations have the form dp/dt = -dH/dq, dq/dt = dH/dp, with a Hamiltonian function H that satisfies H = T(p) + K(q) (T and V are respectively the kinetic and potential energies). We study the integration of these systems by means of partitioned Runge-Kutta methods, i.e., by means of methods where different Runge-Kutta tableaux are used for the p and...