A general family of explicit Runge-Kutta pairs of orders 6(5)

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 917-936

  Papakostas, S N ^a   Tsitouras, Ch ^b   Papageorgiou, G ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Hellenic Airforce Academy Dekelia   (Greece)

Author keywords

Initial value problems; Pairs of embedded methods; Runge Kutta

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001394474     PISSN: 00361429     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/0733046     Document Type: Article

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