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Volume 31, Issue 3
Tuning Symplectic Integrators is Easy and Worthwhile

Robert I. McLachlan

DOI: 10.4208/cicp.OA-2021-0154

Commun. Comput. Phys., 31 (2022), pp. 987-996.

Published online: 2022-03

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Many applications in computational physics that use numerical integrators based on splitting and composition can benefit from the development of optimized algorithms and from choosing the best ordering of terms. The cost in programming and execution time is minimal, while the performance improvements can be large. In this note we report the influence of term ordering for random systems and for two systems from celestial mechanics that describe particle paths near black holes, quantifying its significance for both optimized and unoptimized methods. We also present a method for the computation of solutions of integrable monomial Hamiltonians that minimizes roundoff error and allows the effective use of compensation summation.

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Symplectic integrators, celestial mechanics, splitting methods.

  • AMS Subject Headings

65P10, 65G50

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Many applications in computational physics that use numerical integrators based on splitting and composition can benefit from the development of optimized algorithms and from choosing the best ordering of terms. The cost in programming and execution time is minimal, while the performance improvements can be large. In this note we report the influence of term ordering for random systems and for two systems from celestial mechanics that describe particle paths near black holes, quantifying its significance for both optimized and unoptimized methods. We also present a method for the computation of solutions of integrable monomial Hamiltonians that minimizes roundoff error and allows the effective use of compensation summation.

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TY - JOUR T1 - Tuning Symplectic Integrators is Easy and Worthwhile AU - McLachlan , Robert I. JO - Communications in Computational Physics VL - 3 SP - 987 EP - 996 PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03 SN - 31 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.OA-2021-0154 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/cicp/20306.html KW - Symplectic integrators, celestial mechanics, splitting methods. AB -

Many applications in computational physics that use numerical integrators based on splitting and composition can benefit from the development of optimized algorithms and from choosing the best ordering of terms. The cost in programming and execution time is minimal, while the performance improvements can be large. In this note we report the influence of term ordering for random systems and for two systems from celestial mechanics that describe particle paths near black holes, quantifying its significance for both optimized and unoptimized methods. We also present a method for the computation of solutions of integrable monomial Hamiltonians that minimizes roundoff error and allows the effective use of compensation summation.

McLachlan , Robert I.. (2022). Tuning Symplectic Integrators is Easy and Worthwhile. Communications in Computational Physics. 31 (3). 987-996. doi:10.4208/cicp.OA-2021-0154
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