Local path fitting: A new approach to variational integrators

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2011.12.021MaRDI QIDQ408197zbMATH OpenOpenAlexDBLPWikidataFDO

Authors O. T. Kosmas, D. S. Vlachos

Publication date 29 March 2012

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1627

zbMATH Keywords

numerical examplesdiscrete variational mechanicssymplectic integratorsvariational integratorstwo-body problemBernstein basis polynomialsouter planets of the solar system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Galactic and stellar dynamics (85A05) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Two-body problems (70F05) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Celestial mechanics (70F15)

Abstract: In this work, we present a new approach to the construction of variational integrators. In the general case, the estimation of the action integral in a time interval $[q_k,q_{k+1}]$ is used to construct a symplectic map $(q_k,q_{k+1})o(q_{k+1},q_{k+2})$. The basic idea here, is that only the partial derivatives of the estimation of the action integral of the Lagrangian are needed in the general theory. The analytic calculation of these derivatives, give raise to a new integral which depends not on the Lagrangian but on the Euler--Lagrange vector, which in the continuous and exact case vanishes. Since this new integral can only be computed through a numerical method based on some internal grid points, we can locally fit the exact curve by demanding the Euler--Lagrange vector to vanish at these grid points. Thus the integral vanishes, and the process dramatically simplifies the calculation of high order approximations. The new technique is tested for high order solutions in the two-body problem with high eccentricity (up to 0.99) and in the outer solar system.

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