The asymptotic behaviour of the θ-methods with constant stepsize for the generalized pantograph equation

Abstract

This paper is concerned with the long-time behaviour of the numerical solutions to a class of linear non-autonomous neutral delay differential equation with proportional delays. Our purpose is to give some asymptotic estimates of the θ-methods with constant stepsize discretization and formulate their upper bounds. Asymptotic estimate not only describes more accurate than asymptotic stability, but also gives an upper bound estimate of the solution for the long-time behaviour. We also compare the known results and show that our formulae improve and generalize these results. Some numerical examples are given in the end of this paper to confirm the theoretical results.