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Pathwise approximation of random ordinary differential equations. (English) Zbl 0998.65010

This paper presents an averaging procedure for improving the Euler and Heun methods of numerical approximation of the solution of the vector random ordinary differential equation \[ \frac{dx}{dt}=G(t,\omega) +g(t,\omega) H(x,\omega), \] where \(G\), \(g\) are Hölder continuous in \(t\), and \(H\) is once (for Euler) or twice (for Heun) continuously differentiable in \(x\). It is shown that by averaging \(G\) and \(g\) over \(N\) equally spaced values of \(t\) in each discretization subinterval, order of convergence 1 for the Euler method and 2 for the Heun method can be attained, whereas the standard Euler and Heun methods may have only fractional order. Two examples are given which demonstrate that the averaging procedure approximations can show a substantial reduction in error over the approximations generated by the standard Euler and Heun methods.

MSC:

65C30 Numerical solutions to stochastic differential and integral equations
65L06 Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations
34F05 Ordinary differential equations and systems with randomness
65L20 Stability and convergence of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations
60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)
60H35 Computational methods for stochastic equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)
65L70 Error bounds for numerical methods for ordinary differential equations
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