Module 2: Single Step Methods
  Lecture 6: Improvement of the error bound
 

 

An Illustrative Example:

Let us consider solving the IVP

by Euler's method. Let us also determine the error bounds and an estimate for the error.

Here and .

Therefore, with we have

The a priori bound is obtained as

The Lipschitz constants are given by

Now,

Also, since we have

and hence

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