Improved Two-Point Block Backward Differentiation Formulae for Solving First Order Stiff Initial Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations

Abstract

Two numerical methods- I2BBDF2 and I22BBDF2 that compute two points simultaneously at every step of integration by first providing a starting value via fourth order Runge-Kutta method are derived using Taylor series expansion. The two-point block schemes are derived by modifying the existing I2BBDF (5) method of Mohamad et al., (2018). Convergence and stability analysis of the new methods are established with the methods being of order two and A-stable in both cases. Despite the very low order of the new methods, the accuracy of these methods on some stiff initial value problems in the literature proves their superiority over existing methods of higher orders such as I2BBDF(5), BBDF(5), E2OSB(4) among others.