A unified starting procedure for the Houbolt method.

The method proposed by J.C. Houbolt in 1950 is one of the pioneering methods of time integration. Nevertheless, especially due to its multi-step fashion and not having a well-defined starting procedure, the method has not met considerable acceptance. The conversion of the Houbolt method to a one-step method is reported in the literature. However, the resulting method still lacks an appropriate starting procedure for all practical cases. In this paper, a parameter-less unified starting procedure is proposed for time integration with the Houbolt method. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]