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Stiff equations are problems for which explicit methods don’t work. Curtiss & Hirschfelder (1952) explain stiffness on one-dimensional examples such as
... Around 1960, things became completely different and everyone became aware that the world was full of stiff problems.
(G. Dahlquist in Aiken 1985)
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Hairer, E., Wanner, G. (1996). Examples of Stiff Equations. In: Solving Ordinary Differential Equations II. Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, vol 14. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05221-7_1
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