On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Adam C Powell IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 10:50 -0500, Roy Stogner wrote:
>> On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir wrote:
>>
>> > Moving back to John's point about the previously mentioned
>> > Predictor/Corrector algorithm (assumi
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Roy Stogner wrote:
>> I did some digging
>> around, looked up the methods that John suggested, and found a variable
>> coefficient multistep method (allows for unequally spaced data):
>>
>> Chapter 12
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=aqfMgehyGnEC
>
> That looks like an exce
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, John Peterson wrote:
> This was probably a confusing description but try it for
> a simple example to convince yourself the first Newton step is not the
> same as an explicit solve.
John's right - in fact, consider the case where f(U) is linear. Then
Newton will obviously h
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all:
>After some enlightening conversations with Roy, I am going to be
> implementing a predictor/corrector AdaptiveTimeSolver class that does
> the following:
>
> 1) An explicit solve (just an EulerSo
