An Energy Conserving Modification of Numerical Methods for the Integration of Equations of Motion

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1974Author
LaBudde, Robert
Greenspan, Donald
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Computer Sciences
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In the integration of the equations of motion of a system of particles, conventional numerical methods generate an error in the total energy of the same order as the truncation error. A simple modification of these methods is described, which results in exact conservation of the energy.
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