Taylor series based computations and MATLAB ODE solvers comparisons

Abstract

The paper is a part of student cooperation in AKTION project (Austria-Czech). Taylor series method for solving differential equations represents a non-traditional way of a numerical solution. Even though this method is not much preferred in the literature, experimental calculations done at the Department of Intelligent Systems of the Faculty of Information Technology of TU Brno have verified that the accuracy and stability of the Taylor series method exceeds the currently used algorithms for numerically solving differential equations. The paper deals with possibilities of numerical solution of Initial Value Problems of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) - using the Taylor series method with automatic computation of higher Taylor series terms. The explicit and implicit scheme of Taylor series method is compared with numerical solvers implemented in MATLAB software [1]. The computation time and accuracy of our approach are compared with that of MATLAB ode solvers on a set of ODEs test examples [2].