Computer Science – Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
Oct 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aps..tsffp1015e&link_type=abstract
American Physical Society, Joint Fall 2010 Meeting of the Texas Sections of the APS, AAPT, Zone 13 of SPS and the National Socie
Computer Science
Numerical Analysis
Scientific paper
This work seeks to investigate the trajectories of cosmic ray (CR) particles traveling from a source, like a pulsar or supernova, to Earth. Galactic CRs of moderate energy travel in tightly wound helices around the Galactic magnetic field lines. To better understand how this propagation is affected by errors from numerical integration, a model of the trajectory of a simple harmonic oscillator (SHO) in 2-dimensional phase space is calculated using three algorithms (Euler, Euler-Cromer, and Leapfrog methods). The errors associated with these algorithms are explained using techniques of numerical analysis. Results show that the Leapfrog method converges to the analytic solution of the equations of motion of the SHO the fastest. This method will be used to calculate the trajectory of the Galactic CRs.
Bertschinger Edmund
Espejel Hugo
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