Aslan, 2016-11-17 19:31 GMT-05:00 <[email protected]>: > On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 5:22:00 PM UTC-7, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote: >> > I can see that there is an implementation of IRK method in deal.ii. If >> > you do >> > not mind, may I ask what was the reason that that particular method was >> > chosen >> > in your software? I am aware that IRK and BDF schemes have overall >> > similar >> > efficiency, so that might have been just some personal preference of the >> > developer(s). >> >> That would be a question for Bruno and Damien. I don't know. The reason is that all Runge-Kutta methods (including forward and backward Euler) can be expressed using a Butcher tableau. Once you have the code working for one explicit RK method and you have a Newton solver, you can easily add any Runge-Kutta method by adding a new Butcher tableau. Since this was a very small amount of work, we added IRK schemes. There is no numerical reasons why IRK was chosen over BDF.
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