A note on implementations of the Boosting Algorithm and Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods

Abstract

We present improved convergence results for the Boosting Algorithm (BA), and demonstrate that an existing formulation of the Heterogeneous Multiscale Methods (HMM) is accurate to first order only in the macro time step, regardless of the order of the numerical solvers employed. These results are obtained by considering the BA and two other formulations of HMM as special cases of a general formulation of HMM applied to dissipative stiff ordinary differential equations.