An energy conserving modification of numerical methods for the integration of equations of motion (Q1087342)
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An energy conserving modification of numerical methods for the integration of equations of motion (English)
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1987
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In the integration of the equations of motion of a system of particles, conventional numerical methods generate an error in the total energy of the same order as the truncation error. A simple modification of these methods is described, which results in exact conservation of the energy.
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ordinary differential equations
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multiplicative parameters
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third-order Taylor series
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Adams' formulae
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numerical methods
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truncation error
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exact conservation of the energy
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