Variable step size destabilizes the Störmer/leapfrog/Verlet method

DOI10.1007/BF01990352zbMath0779.65053MaRDI QIDQ2366660

Robert D. Skeel

Publication date: 9 January 1994

Published in: BIT (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Verlet method; instabilities; test equation; leapfrog method; variable step sizes; second order Störmer method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65L20: Stability and convergence of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations

34A30: Linear ordinary differential equations and systems

65L06: Multistep, Runge-Kutta and extrapolation methods for ordinary differential equations

65L50: Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for ordinary differential equations

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