
Index 269
iteration
– fixed-point, 110
– Newton–Raphson, 110, 114–116, 141
– Picard, 110
IVP, see initial value problem
Jacobian, 111, 115, 167–176, 209,
251–253
Jury conditions, 84
Kepler, 200, 212, 221
kinetic energy, 217
l’Hˆopital’s rule, 53, 60, 259
Landau notation, 22
Lenzie, 10
libration, 211
Lie group, 221
limit cycle, 12
linear difference operator, 49, 50, 52, 54,
57, 58, 68
linear multistep method, see method,
linear multistep
linear stability, see stability, linear
linearization, see equation, linearized
Lipschitz condition, 203
– one sided, 119
LMM, see method, linear multistep
lo cal extrapolation, 113, 160
lo cal truncation error, 78, 113
– controlling, 146
– Euler’s method, 23, 28
– interpretation, 69
– LMM, 68–70
– RK method, 127
– Taylor series method, 37, 40, 148
lo calizing assumption, 37, 70, 121, 127,
137, 156, 178, 179, 186, 191
log-linear scale, 76
log-log scale, 237
logistic, see equation, logistic
lognormal, 233
long-term behaviour, 97, 118, 165–176,
195
Lotka–Volterra equations, see equation,
Lotka–Volterra
LTE, see local truncation error
Lyapunov function, 118, 206
Maclaurin expansion, 23, 42, 86, 107,
191, 248
mass action, 196
mathematical finance, 234
Matlab, 117, 228, 229
matrix, 17, 97, 140, 151, 167, 170, 183,
186, 191, 199, 208, 209, 213, 252
– diagonalizable, 98, 140
– exponential, 223
– logarithm, 223
– lower triangular, 126, 142
– of partial derivatives, see Jacobian
– rotation, 107, 221
– skew-symmetric, 105, 192
– tridiagonal, 11
mean, 227, 237, 239
mean-reverting square-root process, 234,
241
mechanical models, 197
metho d
– Adams–Bashforth, 45–47, 48, 66, 95,
112, 162–163, 243
– Adams–Moulton, 48, 59, 66, 112, 243
– backward differentiation formula, 59,
67, 72, 93
– backward Euler, 48, 54, 58, 67, 78–79,
103, 111–121, 159, 181, 191, 205, 214
– Dahlquist, 48
– Euler, 19–31, 34, 35, 39, 46, 48, 49,
54, 65, 66, 76, 78, 82, 95, 100, 103,
106, 112–121, 128, 149, 153, 157, 171,
178, 196, 197, 200, 214, 231
– – composite, 93, 143
– – for systems, 29, 30
– – improved, 129, 132–133, 139, 157,
158, 163
– – modified, 123, 129, 133, 171, 173
– – symplectic, 184–187, 215
– Euler–Maruyama, 236, 238, 239
– explicit LMM, 57, 66
– Gauss, 205
– Heun, 131, 133
– implicit LMM, 66, 161
– implicit mid-point, 199, 205, 223
– leap-frog, 55
– linear multistep, 19, 43–121, 153–156,
197
– – two-step, 48–56, 59, 99
– – explicit, 48, 50, 56–70
– – implicit, 45, 48, 56–57, 70, 109–117
– – k-step, 56–57
– – reducible, 71
– mid-point, 55, 66, 86–87, 91, 108,
188–190
– Milne–Simpson, 67, 87
– Monte Carlo, 231, 238
– Nystr¨om, 55, 66, 87
– ode23, 160