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Linear Multistep Methods—IV: Systems of ODEs

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Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations

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In this chapter we describe the use of LMMs to solve systems of ODEs and show how the notion of absolute stability can be generalized to such problems. We begin with an example.

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Griffiths, D.F., Higham, D.J. (2010). Linear Multistep Methods—IV: Systems of ODEs. In: Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations. Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-148-6_7

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