Symplectic variable step size integration for N-body problems

Applied Numerical Mathematics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-30

  Hardy, David J ^a   Okunbor, Daniel I ^b   Skeel, Robert D ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Missouri University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE TIME STEPPING; SYMPLECTIC INTEGRATION;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 0032737545     PISSN: 01689274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9274(98)00031-2     Document Type: Article

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