An energy conserving modification of numerical methods for the integration of equations of motion (Q1087342)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3988760
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    An energy conserving modification of numerical methods for the integration of equations of motion
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3988760

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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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