Letter to the editor: Comments on ``Numerical instability due to varying time steps in explicit wave propagation and mechanics calculations by Joseph P. Wright

DOI10.1006/jcph.1998.6072zbMath0937.65100OpenAlexW1967808445MaRDI QIDQ1268372

Robert D. Skeel

Publication date: 8 December 1998

Published in: Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1006/jcph.1998.6072

zbMATH Keywords

stabilitywave equationnumerical instabilityleapfrog method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Wave equation (35L05) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12)

Cites Work

• Variable time step integration with symplectic methods
• Variable step size destabilizes the Störmer/leapfrog/Verlet method
• A Family of Symplectic Integrators: Stability, Accuracy, and Molecular Dynamics Applications
• The Adaptive Verlet Method
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