Long-time behaviour of discretizations of the simple pendulum equation

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/42/10/105204MaRDI QIDQ3615454zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bogusław Ratkiewicz, Jan L. Cieśliński

Publication date 20 March 2009

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1378

zbMATH Keywords

discrete gradient methodlong-time behaviournumerical experimentspendulum equationsymplectic integrator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Finite difference and finite volume methods for ordinary differential equations (65L12) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Integrable cases of motion in rigid body dynamics (70E40)

Abstract: We compare the performance of several discretizations of the simple pendulum equation in a series of numerical experiments. The stress is put on the long-time behaviour. We choose for the comparison numerical schemes which preserve the qualitative features of solutions (like periodicity). All these schemes are either symplectic maps or integrable (preserving the energy integral) maps, or both. We describe and explain systematic errors (produced by any method) in numerical computations of the period and the amplitude of oscillations. We propose a new numerical scheme which is a modification of the discrete gradient method. This discretization preserves (almost exactly) the period of small oscillations for any time step.

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