Research Article

An Accurate Block Solver for Stiff Initial Value Problems

Table 2

Numerical results for problem (2) (the cosine problem).

TOL Method IST FS TS MAXE

NBDF 126 38 164
VSBBDF 72 4 76
NVSBBDF 65 1 66
VSSBBDF 72 0 72

NBDF 249 70 319
VSBBDF 159 7 166
NVSBBDF 116 0 116
VSSBBDF 149 0 149

NBDF 474 100 574
VSBBDF 457 19 476
NVSBBDF 398 4 402
VSSBBDF 472 0 472