Variational Discretizations: Discrete Tangent Bundles, Local Error Analysis, and Arbitrary Order Variational Integrators

DOI10.1063/1.3241221zbMath1182.65191OpenAlexW1579059834MaRDI QIDQ5851608

George W. Patrick

Publication date: 22 January 2010

Published in: AIP Conference Proceedings (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/868af5de10c08a936f560108e3cac4f8d91568b9

zbMATH Keywords

molecular dynamicsHamilton's principlesymplectic integratorsvariational integratorsgeometric discretizationholonomic and nonholonomic mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for initial value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L05) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Variational principles of physics (49S05)

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