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Splitting and composition methods in the numerical integration of differential equations
We provide a comprehensive survey of splitting and composition methods for
the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). Splitting
methods constitute an appropriate choice when the vector field associated with
the ODE can be decomposed into several pieces and each of them is integrable.
This class of integrators are explicit, simple to implement and preserve
structural properties of the system. In consequence, they are specially useful
in geometric numerical integration. In addition, the numerical solution
obtained by splitting schemes can be seen as the exact solution to a perturbed
system of ODEs possessing the same geometric properties as the original system.
This backward error interpretation has direct implications for the qualitative
behavior of the numerical solution as well as for the error propagation along
time. Closely connected with splitting integrators are composition methods. We
analyze the order conditions required by a method to achieve a given order and
summarize the different families of schemes one can find in the literature.
Finally, we illustrate the main features of splitting and composition methods
on several numerical examples arising from applications.Comment: Review paper; 56 pages, 6 figures, 8 table
Exotic aromatic B-series for the study of long time integrators for a class of ergodic SDEs
We introduce a new algebraic framework based on a modification (called
exotic) of aromatic Butcher-series for the systematic study of the accuracy of
numerical integrators for the invariant measure of a class of ergodic
stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with additive noise. The proposed
analysis covers Runge-Kutta type schemes including the cases of partitioned
methods and postprocessed methods. We also show that the introduced exotic
aromatic B-series satisfy an isometric equivariance property.Comment: 33 page
The Magnus expansion and some of its applications
Approximate resolution of linear systems of differential equations with
varying coefficients is a recurrent problem shared by a number of scientific
and engineering areas, ranging from Quantum Mechanics to Control Theory. When
formulated in operator or matrix form, the Magnus expansion furnishes an
elegant setting to built up approximate exponential representations of the
solution of the system. It provides a power series expansion for the
corresponding exponent and is sometimes referred to as Time-Dependent
Exponential Perturbation Theory. Every Magnus approximant corresponds in
Perturbation Theory to a partial re-summation of infinite terms with the
important additional property of preserving at any order certain symmetries of
the exact solution. The goal of this review is threefold. First, to collect a
number of developments scattered through half a century of scientific
literature on Magnus expansion. They concern the methods for the generation of
terms in the expansion, estimates of the radius of convergence of the series,
generalizations and related non-perturbative expansions. Second, to provide a
bridge with its implementation as generator of especial purpose numerical
integration methods, a field of intense activity during the last decade. Third,
to illustrate with examples the kind of results one can expect from Magnus
expansion in comparison with those from both perturbative schemes and standard
numerical integrators. We buttress this issue with a revision of the wide range
of physical applications found by Magnus expansion in the literature.Comment: Report on the Magnus expansion for differential equations and its
applications to several physical problem
Efficient integration of the variational equations of multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems: Application to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam lattice
We study the problem of efficient integration of variational equations in
multi-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. For this purpose, we consider a
Runge-Kutta-type integrator, a Taylor series expansion method and the so-called
`Tangent Map' (TM) technique based on symplectic integration schemes, and apply
them to the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam (FPU-) lattice of nonlinearly
coupled oscillators, with ranging from 4 to 20. The fast and accurate
reproduction of well-known behaviors of the Generalized Alignment Index (GALI)
chaos detection technique is used as an indicator for the efficiency of the
tested integration schemes. Implementing the TM technique--which shows the best
performance among the tested algorithms--and exploiting the advantages of the
GALI method, we successfully trace the location of low-dimensional tori.Comment: 14 pages, 6 figure
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