N-body simulations: the performance of eleven integrators

P.W. Sharp

Abstract

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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