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# TSGL

DAE solver using implicit General Linear methods These methods contain Runge-Kutta and multistep schemes as special cases. These special cases have some fundamental limitations. For example, diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta cannot have stage order greater than 1 which limits their applicability to very stiff systems. Meanwhile, multistep methods cannot be A-stable for order greater than 2 and BDF are not 0-stable for order greater than 6. GL methods can be A- and L-stable with arbitrarily high stage order and reliable error estimates for both 1 and 2 orders higher to facilitate adaptive step sizes and adaptive order schemes. All this is possible while preserving a singly diagonally implicit structure.

### Options database keys

| -ts_gl_type <type> | - the class of general linear method (irks)
| -ts_gl_rtol <tol> | - relative error
| -ts_gl_atol <tol> | - absolute error
| -ts_gl_min_order <p> | - minimum order method to consider (default=1)
| -ts_gl_max_order <p> | - maximum order method to consider (default=3)
| -ts_gl_start_order <p> | - order of starting method (default=1)
| -ts_gl_complete <method> | - method to use for completing the step (rescale-and-modify or rescale)
| -ts_adapt_type <method> | - adaptive controller to use (none step both)

### Notes

This integrator can be applied to DAE.

Diagonally implicit general linear (DIGL) methods are a generalization of diagonally implicit Runge-Kutta (DIRK). They are represented by the tableau

      A  |  U
      -------
      B  |  V

combined with a vector c of abscissa. "Diagonally implicit" means that A is lower triangular. A step of the general method reads

      [ Y ] = [A  U] [  Y'   ]
      [X^k] = [B  V] [X^{k-1}]

where Y is the multivector of stage values, Y' is the multivector of stage derivatives, X^k is the Nordsieck vector of the solution at step k. The Nordsieck vector consists of the first r moments of the solution, given by

      X = [x_0,x_1,...,x_{r-1}] = [x, h x', h^2 x'', ..., h^{r-1} x^{(r-1)} ]

If A is lower triangular, we can solve the stages (Y,Y') sequentially

      y_i = h sum_{j=0}^{s-1} (a_ij y'_j) + sum_{j=0}^{r-1} u_ij x_j,    i=0,...,{s-1}

and then construct the pieces to carry to the next step

      xx_i = h sum_{j=0}^{s-1} b_ij y'_j  + sum_{j=0}^{r-1} v_ij x_j,    i=0,...,{r-1}

Note that when the equations are cast in implicit form, we are using the stage equation to define y'_i in terms of y_i and known stuff (y_j for j<i and x_j for all j).

Error estimation

At present, the most attractive GL methods for stiff problems are singly diagonally implicit schemes which posses Inherent Runge-Kutta Stability (IRKS). These methods have r=s, the number of items passed between steps is equal to the number of stages. The order and stage-order are one less than the number of stages. We use the error estimates in the 2007 paper which provide the following estimates

      h^{p+1} X^{(p+1)}          = phi_0^T Y' + [0 psi_0^T] Xold
      h^{p+2} X^{(p+2)}          = phi_1^T Y' + [0 psi_1^T] Xold
      h^{p+2} (dx'/dx) X^{(p+1)} = phi_2^T Y' + [0 psi_2^T] Xold

These estimates are accurate to O(h^{p+3}).

Changing the step size

We use the generalized "rescale and modify" scheme, see equation (4.5) of the 2007 paper.

### References

| 1. | - John Butcher and Z. Jackieweicz and W. Wright, On error propagation in general linear methods for ordinary differential equations, Journal of Complexity, Vol 23, 2007.
| 2. | - John Butcher, Numerical methods for ordinary differential equations, second edition, Wiley, 2009.

### See Also

TSCreate(), TS, TSSetType()

Level:beginner
Location: src/ts/impls/implicit/gl/gl.c
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