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Many problems in astrophysics cover multiple orders of magnitude in spatial and temporal scales. While simulating systems that experience rapid changes in these conditions, it is essential to adapt the (time-) step size to capture the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-19 Veronica Saz Ulibarrena , Simon Portegies Zwart

Long-term stability studies of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems require symplectic integration algorithms which are both fast and accurate. In this paper, we study a symplectic integration method wherein the symplectic map representing the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Govindan Rangarajan

Effective Liouville operators of the first- and the second-order symplectic integrators are obtained for the one-dimensional harmonic-oscillator system. The operators are defined only when the time step is less than two. Absolute values of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hiroto Kobayashi

Energy methods for constructing time-stepping algorithms are of increased interest in application to nonlinear problems, since numerical stability can be inferred from the conservation of the system energy. Alternatively, symplectic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Vasileios Chatziioannou

We study how inexact nonlinear solvers lead to a loss of exact symplecticity in the Symplectic Euler (SE) and Stormer-Verlet (SV) schemes when applied to general nonseparable Hamiltonian systems. These schemes are implicit and require…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Matěj Gajdoš , Ondřej Brichta , Václav Kučera

In this paper, we are concerned with the construction and analysis of a new class of methods obtained as double jump compositions with complex coefficients and projection on the real axis. It is shown in particular that the new integrators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-27 Fernando Casas , Philippe Chartier , Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomas , Yong Zhang

The shearing sheet is a model dynamical system that is used to study the small-scale dynamics of astrophysical disks. Numerical simulations of particle trajectories in the shearing sheet usually employ the leapfrog integrator, but this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-17 Hanno Rein , Scott Tremaine

Multi-adaptive Galerkin methods are extensions of the standard continuous and discontinuous Galerkin methods for the numerical solution of initial value problems for ordinary or partial differential equations. In particular, the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Johan Jansson , Anders Logg

In this paper, we investigate the asymptotic error distributions of symplectic methods for stochastic Hamiltonian systems and further provide Hamiltonian-specific analysis that clarifies the superiority of symplectic methods. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Chuchu Chen , Xinyu Chen , Jialin Hong , Yuqian Miao

Symplectic integration of autonomous Hamiltonian systems is a well-known field of study in geometric numerical integration, but for non-autonomous systems the situation is less clear, since symplectic structure requires an even number of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-18 Håkon Marthinsen , Brynjulf Owren

In this note, we propose a symplectic algorithm for the stable manifolds of the Hamilton-Jacobi equations combined with an iterative procedure in [Sakamoto-van~der Schaft, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2008]. Our algorithm…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-08-16 Guoyuan Chen , Gaosheng Zhu

Simulation of many-particle system evolution by molecular dynamics takes to decrease integration step to provide numerical scheme stability on the sufficiently large time interval. It leads to a significant increase of the volume of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-05-19 Eduard G. Nikonov

In this work we propose a new numerical approach to distinguish between regular and chaotic orbits in Hamiltonian systems, based on the simultaneous integration of both the orbit and the deviation vectors using a symplectic scheme, hereby…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Anne-Sophie Libert , Charles Hubaux , Timoteo Carletti

Unconditionally stable time stepping schemes are useful and often practically necessary for advancing parabolic operators in multi-scale systems. However, serious accuracy problems may emerge when taking time steps that far exceed the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Ronald M. Caplan , Craig D. Johnston , Lars K. S. Daldoff , Jon A. Linker

We present a method for explicit leapfrog integration of inseparable Hamiltonian systems by means of an extended phase space. A suitably defined new Hamiltonian on the extended phase space leads to equations of motion that can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-23 Pauli Pihajoki

We present a practical algorithm based on symplectic splitting methods to integrate numerically in time the Schr\"odinger equation. When discretized in space, the Schr\"odinger equation can be recast as a classical Hamiltonian system…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-24 S. Blanes , F. Casas , A. Murua

This paper deals with the numerical integration of Hamiltonian systems in which a stiff anharmonic potential causes highly oscillatory solution behavior with solution-dependent frequencies. The impulse method, which uses micro- and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Christian Lubich , Daniel Weiss

Dependable numerical results from long-time simulations require stable numerical integration schemes. For Hamiltonian systems, this is achieved with symplectic integrators, which conserve the symplectic condition and exactly solve for the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Stephen D. Webb

Efficient fourth order symplectic integrators are proposed for numerical integration of separable Hamiltonian systems H(p,q)=T(p)+V(q). Symmetric splitting coefficients with five to nine stages are obtained by higher order decomposition of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-10 Kristian Mads Egeris Nielsen

A second order explicit one-step numerical method for the initial value problem of the general ordinary differential equation is proposed. It is obtained by natural modifications of the well-known leapfrog method, which is a second order,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-26 Ulrich Mutze