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Conservative methods for dynamical systems

Numerical Analysis 2018-05-23 v1

Abstract

We show a novel systematic way to construct conservative finite difference schemes for quasilinear first-order system of ordinary differential equations with conserved quantities. In particular, this includes both autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems with conserved quantities of arbitrary forms, such as time-dependent conserved quantities. Sufficient conditions to construct conservative schemes of arbitrary order are derived using the multiplier method. General formulas for first-order conservative schemes are constructed using divided difference calculus. New conservative schemes are found for various dynamical systems such as Euler's equation of rigid body rotation, Lotka-Volterra systems, the planar restricted three-body problem and the damped harmonic oscillator.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02417,
  title  = {Conservative methods for dynamical systems},
  author = {Andy T. S. Wan and Alexander Bihlo and Jean-Christophe Nave},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02417},
  year   = {2018}
}

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29 pages

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