We compare the performance of the Stormer methods of orders nine and thirteen, two optimized symplectic explicit Runge-Kutta-Nystrom methods of orders four and seven, and the integrators DIVA, STEP, DXRK8, RKSUITE, ODEX, ODEX2, RKNINT on four challenging N-body simulations of the Solar System. |
Keywords
integrators, comparisons, N-body simulations
Math Review Classification
Primary 65L05
; Secondary 70F10
Last Updated
September 16, 2003
Length
22
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