A review of the methods for the solution of DEAs

Abstract

Differential-Algebraic equation systems (DAEs) occur in a variety of applications in science and engineering and interest in them has grown considerably during the latter part of the twentieth century. The aims of this thesis are to provide the interested reader with a comprehensible and informative introduction to DAEs, whilst assuming no prior knowledge of the subject area; to give an indication to the reader with a DAE to solve whether or not they can hope to be successful; to introduce the reader to possible methods of solution (either analytical, numerical or both)