Rigid body dynamics in terms of quaternions: Hamiltonian formulation and conserving numerical integration

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 444-473

  Betsch, Peter ^a   Siebert, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energy conserving; Multibody dynamics; Rigid bodies; Solids; Time integration; Variational integrators

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVING; MULTIBODY DYNAMICS; RIGID BODIES; TIME INTEGRATION; VARIATIONAL INTEGRATORS;

ALGEBRA; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EULER EQUATIONS; HAMILTONIANS; INTEGRATION;

ENERGY CONSERVATION;

EID: 68549120763     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2586     Document Type: Article

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