Variational and linearly implicit integrators, with applications

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRU064MaRDI QIDQ2794698zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Molei Tao, Houman Owhadi

Publication date 11 March 2016

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.4645, https://authors.library.caltech.edu/65413/

zbMATH Keywords

coarse time-steppingconstrained dynamicsmechanical system on Lie groupNewmark methodnumerical examplespenalty methodsymplectic and linearly implicitvariational 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)

Abstract: We show that symplectic and linearly-implicit integrators proposed by [Zhang and Skeel, 1997] are variational linearizations of Newmark methods. When used in conjunction with penalty methods (i.e., methods that replace constraints by stiff potentials), these integrators permit coarse time-stepping of holonomically constrained mechanical systems and bypass the resolution of nonlinear systems. Although penalty methods are widely employed, an explicit link to Lagrange multiplier approaches appears to be lacking; such a link is now provided (in the context of two-scale flow convergence [Tao, Owhadi and Marsden, 2010]). The variational formulation also allows efficient simulations of mechanical systems on Lie groups.

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