努梅羅夫方法 屬於四階線性多步法，用於求解不出現一階微分項的二階常微分方程 。努梅羅夫方法屬於隱式方法 ，但如果微分方程線性，則可轉化為顯式方法 。該方法由
俄國天文學家Boris Vasil'evich Numerov 提出。
可由努梅羅夫方法求解的微分方程形式為
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2
d
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2
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f
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y
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0
{\displaystyle \left({\frac {d^{2}}{dx^{2}}}+f(x)\right)y(x)=0}
求出函數
y
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x
)
{\displaystyle y(x)}
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{\displaystyle [a,b]}
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n
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1
{\displaystyle x_{n-1}}
x
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{\displaystyle x_{n}}
y
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12
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{\displaystyle y_{n+1}={\frac {\left(2-{\frac {5h^{2}}{6}}f_{n}\right)y_{n}-\left(1+{\frac {h^{2}}{12}}f_{n-1}\right)y_{n-1}}{1+{\frac {h^{2}}{12}}f_{n+1}}}}
算得。
其中，
f
n
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f
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x
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{\displaystyle f_{n}=f(x_{n})}
y
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y
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{\displaystyle y_{n}=y(x_{n})}
x
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{\displaystyle x_{n}}
h
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{\displaystyle h=x_{n}-x_{n-1}}
對於非線性方程，
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{\displaystyle {\frac {d^{2}}{dt^{2}}}y=f(t,y)}
則非線性方程的努梅羅夫方法 為
y
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1
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12
h
2
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)
.
{\displaystyle y_{n+1}=2y_{n}-y_{n-1}+{\tfrac {1}{12}}h^{2}(f_{n+1}+10f_{n}+f_{n-1}).}
該式為隱式的線性多步方法 。當
f
{\displaystyle f}
y
{\displaystyle y}
Hairer, Nørsett & Wanner 1993 ，§III.10)。
在物理中用於數值求解任意勢場中徑向薛丁格方程 ：
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{\displaystyle \left[-{\hbar ^{2} \over 2\mu }\left({\frac {1}{r}}{\partial ^{2} \over \partial r^{2}}r-{l(l+1) \over r^{2}}\right)+V(r)\right]R(r)=ER(r)}
此式可重寫為
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∂
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l
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μ
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{\displaystyle \left[{\partial ^{2} \over \partial r^{2}}-{l(l+1) \over r^{2}}+{2\mu \over \hbar ^{2}}\left(E-V(r)\right)\right]u(r)=0}
其中
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{\displaystyle u(r)=rR(r)}
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{\displaystyle f(x)={\frac {2\mu }{\hbar ^{2}}}\left(E-V(x)\right)-{\frac {l(l+1)}{x^{2}}}}
這樣，我們可以數值求解薛丁格方程。
從
y
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x
n
)
{\displaystyle y(x_{n})}
泰勒展開 開始， 我們可求
x
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{\displaystyle x_{n}}
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{\displaystyle y_{n+1}=y(x_{n}+h)=y(x_{n})+hy'(x_{n})+{\frac {h^{2}}{2!}}y''(x_{n})+{\frac {h^{3}}{3!}}y'''(x_{n})+{\frac {h^{4}}{4!}}y''''(x_{n})+{\frac {h^{5}}{5!}}y'''''(x_{n})+{\mathcal {O}}(h^{6})}
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{\displaystyle y_{n-1}=y(x_{n}-h)=y(x_{n})-hy'(x_{n})+{\frac {h^{2}}{2!}}y''(x_{n})-{\frac {h^{3}}{3!}}y'''(x_{n})+{\frac {h^{4}}{4!}}y''''(x_{n})-{\frac {h^{5}}{5!}}y'''''(x_{n})+{\mathcal {O}}(h^{6})}
上兩式之和為
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{\displaystyle y_{n-1}+y_{n+1}=2y_{n}+{h^{2}}y''_{n}+{\frac {h^{4}}{12}}y''''_{n}+{\mathcal {O}}(h^{6})}
用所求微分方程的定義式
y
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y
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{\displaystyle y''_{n}=-f_{n}y_{n}}
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{\displaystyle y''_{n}}
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{\displaystyle h^{2}f_{n}y_{n}=2y_{n}-y_{n-1}-y_{n+1}+{\frac {h^{4}}{12}}y''''_{n}+{\mathcal {O}}(h^{6})}
對所求微分方程的定義式
y
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−
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{\displaystyle y''_{n}=-f_{n}y_{n}}
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{\displaystyle y''''(x)=-{\frac {d^{2}}{dx^{2}}}\left[f(x)y(x)\right]}
將其代入到四階微分項中，並把二階導
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{\displaystyle {\frac {d^{2}}{dx^{2}}}\left[f(x)y(x)\right]}
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{\displaystyle f_{n}y_{n}}
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{\displaystyle {\frac {f_{n-1}y_{n-1}-2f_{n}y_{n}+f_{n+1}y_{n+1}}{h^{2}}}}
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{\displaystyle h^{2}f_{n}y_{n}=2y_{n}-y_{n-1}-y_{n+1}-{\frac {h^{4}}{12}}{\frac {f_{n-1}y_{n-1}-2f_{n}y_{n}+f_{n+1}y_{n+1}}{h^{2}}}+{\mathcal {O}}(h^{6})}
求解
y
n
+
1
{\displaystyle y_{n+1}}
y
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+
1
=
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2
−
5
h
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6
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{\displaystyle y_{n+1}={\frac {\left(2-{\frac {5h^{2}}{6}}f_{n}\right)y_{n}-\left(1+{\frac {h^{2}}{12}}f_{n-1}\right)y_{n-1}}{1+{\frac {h^{2}}{12}}f_{n+1}}}+{\mathcal {O}}(h^{6}).}
忽略掉
O
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{\displaystyle {\mathcal {O}}(h^{6})}
Hairer, Ernst; Nørsett, Syvert Paul; Wanner, Gerhard, Solving ordinary differential equations I: Nonstiff problems, Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag , 1993, ISBN 978-3-540-56670-0 Numerov, Boris Vasil'evich , A method of extrapolation of perturbations, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 1924, 84 : 592–601 Numerov, Boris Vasil'evich , Note on the numerical integration of d2 x /dt 2 = f (x ,t ), Astronomische Nachrichten , 1927, 230 : 359–364 
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