An Exponentially Fitted and Trigonometrically Fitted Method for the Numerical Solution of Orbital Problems

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1 September 2001

journal article
research article
Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astronomical Journal

Vol. 122 (3) , 1656-1660
https://doi.org/10.1086/322107

Abstract

An explicit symmetric multistep method is presented. The new method is exponentially fitted and trigonometrically fitted and is of algebraic order 10. The efficiency of the proposed method is demonstrated by its application to well-known periodic orbital problems.

Keywords

METHODS : NUMERICAL

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