Title Explicit, time reversible, adaptive step size control
Authors E Hairer, Gustaf Söderlind
Alternative Location http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/0..., Restricted Access
Publication SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING
Year 2005
Volume 26
Issue 6
Pages 1838 - 1851
Document type Article
Status Published
Quality controlled Yes
Language eng
Publisher SIAM PUBLICATIONS
Abstract English Adaptive step size control is difficult to combine with geometric numerical integration. As classical step size control is based on "past" information only, time symmetry is destroyed and with it the qualitative properties of the method. In this paper we develop completely explicit, reversible, symmetry-preserving, adaptive step size selection algorithms for geometric numerical integrators such as the Stormer-Verlet method. A new step density controller is proposed and analyzed using backward error analysis and reversible perturbation theory. For integrable reversible systems we show that the resulting adaptive method nearly preserves all action variables and, in particular, the total energy for Hamiltonian systems. It has the same excellent long-term behavior as that obtained when constant steps are used. With variable steps, however, both accuracy and efficiency are greatly improved.
Keywords backward error analysis, reversible, and reversible step size control, explicit, Hamiltonian systems, Stormer-Verlet method, symmetric methods, time reversible and, adaptive integration, geometric integration, perturbation theory,
ISBN/ISSN/Other ISSN: 1064-8275

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