A new family of phase-fitted and amplification-fitted runge-kutta type methods for oscillators

In order to solve initial value problems of differential equations with oscillatory solutions,this paper improves traditional runge-kutta (rk) methods by introducing frequency-depending weights in the update. new practical rk integrators are obtained with the phase-fitting and amplification-fitting conditions and algebraic order conditions. two of the new methods have updates that are also phase-fitted and amplification-fitted. the linear stability and phase properties of the new methods are examined. the results of numerical experiments on physical and biological problems show the robustness and competence of the new methods compared to some highly efficient integrators in the literature. © 2012 zhaoxia chen et al.