midpoint_fixed


midpoint_fixed, a Python code which solves one or more ordinary differential equations (ODE) using the (implicit) midpoint method, applying a fixed point iteration to solve the associated nonlinear equation.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

midpoint_fixed is available in a MATLAB version and a Python version.

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Reference:

  1. Catalin Trenchea, John Burkardt,
    Refactorization of the midpoint rule,
    Applied Mathematics Letters,
    Volume 107, September 2020.

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Last revised on 07 April 2021.