Christian Lubich - Böcker

This book concerns matrix nearness problems in the framework of spectral optimization. It addresses some current research directions in spectral-based stability studies for differential equations, with material on ordinary differential equations (ODEs), differential algebraic equations and dynamical systems. Here, ‘stability’ is interpreted in a broad sense which covers the need to develop stable and reliable algorithms preserving some qualitative properties of the computed solutions, methodologies which are helpful to assess the onset of potential instabilities or loss of robustness, and tools to determine the asymptotic properties of the solution or its discretization.The topics considered include the computation of robustness measures for linear problems, the use of low-rank ODEs to approximate such measures via gradient systems, the regularity, stability, passivity and controllability analysis of structured linear descriptor systems, and the use of acceleration techniques to deal with some of the presented computational problems.Although the emphasis is on the numerical study of differential equations and dynamical systems, the book will also be of interest to researchers in matrix theory, spectral optimization and spectral graph theory, as well as in dynamical systems and systems theory.

Numerical methods that preserve properties of Hamiltonian systems, reversible systems, differential equations on manifolds and problems with highly oscillatory solutions are the subject of this book.

The term differential-algebraic equation was coined to comprise differential equations with constraints (differential equations on manifolds) and singular implicit differential equations. Such problems arise in a variety of applications, e.g. constrained mechanical systems, fluid dynamics, chemical reaction kinetics, simulation of electrical networks, and control engineering. From a more theoretical viewpoint, the study of differential-algebraic problems gives insight into the behaviour of numerical methods for stiff ordinary differential equations. These lecture notes provide a self-contained and comprehensive treatment of the numerical solution of differential-algebraic systems using Runge-Kutta methods, and also extrapolation methods. Readers are expected to have a background in the numerical treatment of ordinary differential equations. The subject is treated in its various aspects ranging from the theory through the analysis to implementation and applications.