Long-time behaviour of discretizations of the simple pendulum equation

Details Long-time behaviour of discretizations of the simple pendulum equation Long-time behaviour of discretizations of the simple pendulum equation

2008-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/0810.1378v1

Physics

Computational Physics

41 pages, including 18 figures and 4 tables

Scientific paper

10.1088/1751-8113/42/10/105204

We compare the performance of several discretizations of the simple pendulum equation in a series of numerical experiments. The stress is put on the long-time behaviour. We choose for the comparison numerical schemes which preserve the qualitative features of solutions (like periodicity). All these schemes are either symplectic maps or integrable (preserving the energy integral) maps, or both. We describe and explain systematic errors (produced by any method) in numerical computations of the period and the amplitude of oscillations. We propose a new numerical scheme which is a modification of the discrete gradient method. This discretization preserves (almost exactly) the period of small oscillations for any time step.

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