Preprocessed discrete Moser–Veselov algorithm for the full dynamics of a rigid body

Author

Ernst Hairer 1 and Gilles Vilmart 1,2

Affiliations

1 University of Geneva, Switzerland
2 INRIA Rennes, France

Journal

Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General Create an alert RSS this journal

Issue

Volume 39, Number 42

Citation

Ernst Hairer and Gilles Vilmart 2006 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39 13225

doi: 10.1088/0305-4470/39/42/003


 
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Abstract

The discrete Moser–Veselov algorithm is an integrable discretization of the equations of motion for a free rigid body. It is symplectic and time reversible, and it conserves all first integrals of the system. The only drawback is its low order. We present a modification of this algorithm to arbitrarily high order which has negligible overhead but considerably improves the accuracy.

PACS

45.40.Cc Rigid body and gyroscope motion

02.60.-x Numerical approximation and analysis

MSC

65D30 Numerical integration

70G45 Differential-geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) (See also 53Cxx, 53Dxx, 58Axx)

70Exx Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Computational physics

Dates

Issue 42 (20 October 2006)

Received 19 May 2006 , in final form 30 August 2006

Published 4 October 2006



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