Reinot Quispel
La Trobe University
Geometric Numerical Integration of Differential Equations
Wednesday 21st Oct 14:05-14:55pm,
Eastern Avenue Lecture Theatre.
Geometric integration is the numerical integration of a differential
equation, while preserving one or more of its geometric/physical properties
exactly, i.e. to within round-off error.
Many of these geometric properties are of crucial importance in physical
applications: preservation of energy, momentum, angular momentum,
phase-space volume, symmetries, time-reversal symmetry, symplectic structure
and dissipation are examples. The field has tantalizing connections to
dynamical systems, as well as to Lie groups.
In this talk we first present a survey of geometric numerical integration
methods for differential equations, and then exemplify this by discussing
symplectic vs energy-preserving integrators for ODEs as well as for PDEs.
We have tried to make the review of interest for a broader audience.