Good evening,

Thank you very much for the reply. Indeed, the use of the Butcher tableau 
for constructing RK methods is very convenient. This discussion was very 
helpful, so I would like to thank again Dr. Bangerth and Dr. Turcksin for 
their quick responses.

Regards,
Aslan

On Sunday, November 20, 2016 at 8:10:10 PM UTC-7, Bruno Turcksin wrote:
>
> Aslan, 
>
> 2016-11-17 19:31 GMT-05:00  <kosa...@ualberta.ca <javascript:>>: 
> > On Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 5:22:00 PM UTC-7, Wolfgang Bangerth 
> wrote: 
> >> > I can see that there is an implementation of IRK method in deal.ii. 
> If 
> >> > you do 
> >> > not mind, may I ask what was the reason that that particular method 
> was 
> >> > chosen 
> >> > in your software? I am aware that IRK and BDF schemes have overall 
> >> > similar 
> >> > efficiency, so that might have been just some personal preference of 
> the 
> >> > developer(s). 
> >> 
> >> That would be a question for Bruno and Damien. I don't know. 
> The reason is that all Runge-Kutta methods (including forward and 
> backward Euler) can be expressed using a Butcher tableau. Once you 
> have the code working for one explicit RK method and you have a Newton 
> solver, you can easily add any Runge-Kutta method by adding a new 
> Butcher tableau. Since this was a very small amount of work, we added 
> IRK schemes. There is no numerical reasons why IRK was chosen over 
> BDF. 
>
> Best, 
>
> Bruno 
>

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