A time-reversible, regularized, switching integrator for the N-body problem

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 1016-1035

  Kvaerno A ^a   Leimkuhler, B ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hamiltonian systems; N body problems; Smooth switching functions; Time reversible discretization

Indexed keywords

HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SWITCHING FUNCTIONS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LINEAR MOMENTUM; SUNDMAN TIME TRANSFORMATION; SWITCHING INTEGRATOR; TIME REVERSIBLE DISCRETIZATION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 1542385930     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S1064827599355566     Document Type: Article

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