<div class="gmail_quote">Please email the list rather than me personally.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:19, Jeremy Riousset <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:riousset@gatech.edu">riousset@gatech.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Am I correct if I say that the alpha method becomes an implicit
Runge-Kutta for alpha 0.5 and a classic Euler method for alpha = 1?</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>There are two values of "alpha" which could be taken to be the same which would give you a theta method. If they are both equal to one half, you get the midpoint method. Please read the cited papers for specific details. Our implementation recasts the method into a more convenient form to use, but it is equivalent.</div>