Optimal order and time-step criterion for Aarseth-type N-body integrators

• 1 March 1991
• journal article
• Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
• Vol. 369, 200-212
• https://doi.org/10.1086/169751

Abstract

Keywords

• FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION
• HERMITIAN POLYNOMIAL
• MANY BODY PROBLEM
• NUMERICAL INTEGRATION
• RUNGE-KUTTA METHOD
• CHAOS
• ENERGY CONSERVATION
• STATISTICAL ANALYSIS