Properties of Hamiltonian variational integrators

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRX010MaRDI QIDQ4555941zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jeremy Schmitt, Melvin Leok

Publication date 23 November 2018

Published in IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02309, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9wm0q93j

zbMATH Keywords

geometric mechanicsgeometric numerical integrationHamiltonian mechanicssymplectic integratorsvariational integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Hamilton's equations (70H05)

Abstract: Discrete Hamiltonian variational integrators are derived from Type II and Type III generating functions for symplectic maps, and in this paper we establish a variational error analysis result that relates the order of accuracy of the associated numerical methods with the extent to which these generating functions approximate the exact discrete Hamiltonians. We also introduce the notion of an adjoint discrete Hamiltonian, and relate it to the adjoint of the associated symplectic integrator. We show that when constructing discrete Lagrangians and discrete Hamiltonians using the Taylor variational integrator approach, the same underlying one-step method and quadrature rule does not necessarily lead to the same symplectic integrator, and the same observation holds when developing variational integrators based on averaging techniques. Numerical experiments also indicate that the resonance behavior of variational integrators also depend on the type of generating functions used, and we relate this resonance behavior to the ill-posedness of the boundary-value problems used to define the exact discrete Lagrangian and exact discrete Hamiltonian.

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