Asymptotic stability of linear multistep methods for nonlinear neutral delay differential equations

This paper is concerned with the numerical solution to initial value problems of nonlinear delay differential equations of neutral type. We use A-stable linear multistep methods to compute the numerical solution. The asymptotic stability of the A-stable linear multistep methods when applied to the nonlinear delay differential equations of neutral type is investigated, and it is shown that the A-stable linear multistep methods with linear interpolation are GAS-stable. We validate our conclusions by numerical experiments. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.