has characteristic deterministic system behaviour multistep method Adams method 2011-05-10 http://identifiers.org/isbn/978-3-540-56670-0 AZ Adams' methods are multi-step methods used for the numerical integration of initial value problems in Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE's). Adams' algorithm consists of two parts: firstly, a starting procedure which provides y1, ... , yk-1 ( approximations to the exact solution at the points x0 + h, ... , x0 + (k - 1)h ) and, secondly, a multistep formula to obtain an approximation to the exact solution y(x0 + kh). This is then applied recursively, based on the numerical approximation of k successive steps, to compute y(x0 + (k + 1)h). ByoDyn ordinary differential equation problem linearity of equation