Some numerical algorithms for solving the highly oscillatory second-order initial value problems

•For the highly oscillatory second-order initial value problems.•Low storage requirement and high efficiency.•The stability analysis is presented.

In this paper, some numerical algorithms (spectral collocation method, block spectral collocation method, boundary value method, block boundary value method, implicit Runge–Kutta method, diagonally implicit Runge–Kutta method and total variation diminishing Runge–Kutta method) are used to solve the highly oscillatory second-order initial value problems. We first derive these methods for the first-order initial value problems, and then extend these methods to the highly oscillatory nonlinear systems by matrix analysis methods. These new methods preserve the accuracy of the original methods and the main advantages of these new methods are low storage requirements and high efficiency. Extensive numerical results are presented to demonstrate the convergence properties of these methods.