IEEE Access • Vol 13
Unified Framework for Evaluating Numerical Integration Methods Through Characteristic Root Distortion in Linear Ordinary Differential Equations
January 2025 • Takuya Yamakawa, Yosuke Kurihara, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Kajiro Watanabe
Analytically solving complex or large-scale differential equations is often difficult or even impossible, making numerical integration methods indispensable. However, as all numerical integration methods approximate a continuous-time equation using a discrete-time model, they inevitably introduce errors into the numerical solution. This study presents a unified framework for evaluating the numerical errors introduced by various integration methods. The integration formulae are expressed as equations involving diff…