Questions tagged [stiffness]

Referring to ordinary differential equations that require an extremely small timestep to guarantee numerical stability.

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Stiffness ratio evolution for odes

I had a general query related to calculation of stiffness ratio evolution for a set of coupled odes over a certain time interval. My question is, while calculating the eigen values from the jacobian matrix do we need to know the exact solution at…
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Checking if a given differential equation is stiff

i have to decide if the following differential equation is stiff: $$y''(t)=-201y'-200y^2 + 2, \quad t\in[0,20].$$ Sadly, I don't have any solutions. So, what I did was implementing explicit and implicit euler and look at the result for various step…
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RK4 for stiff IVP

I need a solver of stiff Inital-Value Problems (IVP) in python exploiting RK4 preferably explicit. I have been searching for past few days but could not find it. Following are my queries: Does the solver, i.e. any module, exist? If no, will it be…
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