Recently Ch. Lubich proved convergence results for Runge-Kutta methods applied to stii mechanical systems. The present paper discusses the new ideas necessary to extend these results to general linear methods, in particular BDF and multistep Runge-Kutta methods. Stii mechanical systems arise in the modelling of mechanical systems containing strong springs and (or) elastic joints. A typical exam...

This study introduces new strategies for global error estimation in time-stepping algorithms. The new methods propagate the defect along with the numerical solution much like the Zadunaisky procedure; however, the proposed approach allows for overlapped internal computations and, therefore, represents a generalization of the classical numerical schemes for solving differential equations with gl...

In this paper we try to put different practical aspects of the general linear methods discussed in the papers [1,6,7] under one algorithm to show more details of its implementation. With a proposed initial step size strategy this algorithm shows a better performance in some problems. To illustrate the efficiency of the method we consider some standard test problems and report more useful detail...

Explicit exponential integrators based on general linear methods are studied for the time discretization of quasi-linear parabolic initial-boundary value problems. Compared to other exponential integrators encountering rather severe order reductions, in general, the considered class of exponential general linear methods provides the possibility to construct schemes that retain higher-order accu...

This paper derives a new class of general linear methods (GLMs) intended for the solution of stiff ordinary differential equations (ODEs) on parallel computers. Although GLMs were introduced by Butcher in the 1960s, the task of deriving formulas from the class with properties suitable for specific applications is far from complete. This paper is a contribution to that work. Our new methods have...