| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this research is the construction and the analysis of new families of numerical
methods for the integration of special second order Ordinary Differential Equations
(ODEs). The modeling of continuous time dynamical systems using second order ODEs
is widely used in many elds of applications, as celestial mechanics, seismology, molecular
dynamics, or in the semidiscretisation of partial differential equations (which leads to
high dimensional systems and stiffness). Although the numerical treatment of this problem
has been widely discussed in the literature, the interest in this area is still vivid,
because such equations generally exhibit typical problems (e.g. stiffness, metastability,
periodicity, high oscillations), which must efficiently be overcome by using suitable
numerical integrators. The purpose of this research is twofold: on the one hand to construct
a general family of numerical methods for special second order ODEs of the type
y00 = f(y(t)), in order to provide an unifying approach for the analysis of the properties
of consistency, zero-stability and convergence; on the other hand to derive special
purpose methods, that follow the oscillatory or periodic behaviour of the solution of the
problem...[edited by author] | en_US |
