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Energy conserving, Liouville, and symplectic integrators (English)
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29 April 1996
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In the last few years most research in the numerical solution of ordinary differential equations has been addressed to the development of methods adapted to special problems. In particular, a complete theory of symplectic methods for Hamiltonian systems has been constructed [see e.g. \textit{J. M. Sanz-Serna} and \textit{M. P. Calvo}, Numerical Hamiltonian problems (1994; Zbl 0816.65042)]. The present author explores, from a numerical point of view, the possibilities of some numerical methods satisfying a weaker requirement than symplecticity. Thus, in the first part he introduces a particular technique to conserve the energy in a Hamiltonian system by rescaling the velocity at each step so that the energy remains constant along the numerical integration. Some numerical results are presented to show that for the Henon-Heiles problem this technique destroys some important dynamical properties of the phase space. Secondly, the author explores two-stage Runge-Kutta-Nyström methods conserving the volume in the phase-space. Since for problems with dimension \(\geq 2\) this property is a weaker requirement than symplecticity, the author compares a second-order preserving volume method with the Stormer-Verlet symplectic method. Numerical experiments for the two-body problem and a pseudospectral discretization of the sine- Gordon equation show that both methods have a similar behavior for these problems.
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numerical experiments
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symplectic methods
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Hamiltonian systems
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numerical results
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Henon-Heiles problem
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Runge-Kutta-Nyström methods
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Stormer- Verlet symplectic method
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two-body problem
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sine-Gordon equation
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