Adams-Bashforth Method with RK2 as a Start-up Scheme in MATLAB

Let's consider the following differential equation:

y'' + 10 y' + 500y = 0

Where, the initial conditions are,

y(0) = -0.025, and y'(0) = -1

We will solve this differential equation using a multi-step method, Adams-Bashforth, where second order Runge-Kutta approach (RK2) is added as a start-up scheme in the algorithm. 

MATLAB Program:

The following MATLAB program implements the Adams-Bashforth method with initialization with RK2 method.

close all;

clc;

h = 0.02;     % Step size

Tmax = 0.5;    % Maximum time

N = Tmax / h;  % Maximum number of steps

alpha=0.5;

t = linspace(0,0.5,N+1);  % Time range

% Analytical solution of the differential equation

y_real = -(((9.*sqrt(19))/760).*exp(-5.*t).*sin(5.*sqrt(19).*t)) - ((1/40).*exp(-5.*t).*cos(5.*sqrt(19).*t));

plot(t,y_real);

hold on

%Numerical solution

f=@(t,y) [y(2); -500*y(1)-10*y(2)]; % Governing system of equations

% Initial Conditions

Y = [-0.025; -1];

% Initialization with second order Runge-Kutta method

k1 = h.*f(t(1),Y(:,1));

    k2 = h.*f(t(1)+alpha.*h, Y(:,1)+alpha.*k1);

    Y(:,2) = Y(:,1) + (1-1/2/alpha).*k1 + k2/2/alpha;

% Second Order Adams-Bashforth method steps

for i=2:N

    Y(:,i+1) = Y(:,i) + 3/2*h*f(t(i),Y(:,i)) - h/2*f(t(i-1),Y(:,i-1));

end

plot(t,Y(1,:),'o:')

legend('Exact Solution','Adams-Bashforth Solution','Location','NorthEast')

title('When h = 0.02')

xlabel('t')

ylabel('y')

Program Output:

The following plot shows the numerical and analytical solution of the differential equation with two different step sizes with respect to time.