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**Runge-Kutta Method**
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Proposed by Carl Runge and Martin Kutta around 1900, Runge-Kutta methods constitute a widely used family of single-step algorithms for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations.
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Proposed by Carl Runge and Martin Kutta around 1900, Runge-Kutta methods constitute a widely used family of algorithms for the numerical integration of ODEs.
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In an explicit :math:`s`-stage Runge-Kutta scheme for the initial-value problem:
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\mathbf{x}' ;=; \mathbf{u}(\mathbf{x}, t),
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\mathbf{x}(t_n) ;=; \mathbf{x}_n,
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the solution is advanced over a time step :math:h as follows:
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In an explicit :math:`s`-stage Runge-Kutta scheme for this initial-value problem, the solution is advanced over a time step :math:`h` as follows:
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First, compute the intermediate stage vectors:
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h \sum{i=1}^{s} b_i,\mathbf{k}_i.
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Here, the boldface stage variables :math:\mathbf{k}_i represent intermediate slope estimates.
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Here, the boldface stage variables :math:`\mathbf{k}_i` represent intermediate slope estimates.
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**Second-Order Runge-Kutta (RK2, Heun's)**

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