Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2007-01-10
Journal of Physics A : Mathematical and Theoretical, 40, 1747-1755 (2007)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
13 pages, no figures. To appear in J. Phys. A : Math. Theo
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/40/8/004
Systems subjected to holonomic constraints follow quite complicated dynamics that could not be described easily with Hamiltonian or Lagrangian dynamics. The influence of holonomic constraints in equations of motions is taken into account by using Lagrange multipliers. Finding the value of the Lagrange multipliers allows to compute the forces induced by the constraints and therefore, to integrate the equations of motions of the system. Computing analytically the Lagrange multipliers for a constrained system may be a difficult task that is depending on the complexity of systems. For complex systems, it is most of the time impossible to achieve. In computer simulations, some algorithms using iterative procedures estimate numerically Lagrange multipliers or constraint forces by correcting the unconstrained trajectory. In this work, we provide an analytical computation of the Lagrange multipliers for a set of linear holonomic constraints with an arbitrary number of bonds of constant length. In the appendix of the paper, one would find explicit formulas for Lagrange multipliers for systems having 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 bonds of constant length, linearly connected.
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