Variational integrators for almost-integrable systems

DOI10.1007/S10569-008-9172-3MaRDI QIDQ642251zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Will M. Farr

Publication date 26 October 2011

Published in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.1548

zbMATH Keywords

\(N\)-body problemsHamiltonian systemsnumerical methodssymplectic integratorsvariational integrators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10) Computational methods for problems pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-08) (n)-body problems (70F10)

Abstract: We construct several variational integrators--integrators based on a discrete variational principle--for systems with Lagrangians of the form L = L_A + epsilon L_B, with epsilon << 1, where L_A describes an integrable system. These integrators exploit that epsilon << 1 to increase their accuracy by constructing discrete Lagrangians based on the assumption that the integrator trajectory is close to that of the integrable system. Several of the integrators we present are equivalent to well-known symplectic integrators for the equivalent perturbed Hamiltonian systems, but their construction and error analysis is significantly simpler in the variational framework. One novel method we present, involving a weighted time-averaging of the perturbing terms, removes all errors from the integration at O(epsilon). This last method is implicit, and involves evaluating a potentially expensive time-integral, but for some systems and some error tolerances it can significantly outperform traditional simulation methods.

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