Code for verlet frog leap method.

[MathematicalPhysicist]

im searching for a C code for verlet leap method, i.e a one the advances the system of particles with accleration,velocities,displacements.

anyone knows where may i find such a code?

thanks in advance.

 

[neurocomp2003]

too lazy to code yourself?

 

[berkeman]

too lazy to code yourself?

Now, now, take it easy. I'd love to help, but I have no idea of what a verlet leap method is. Anyone?

 

[neurocomp2003]

its known also plainly as the leapfrog method which gives more hits for a search than verlet.

Basically you have some timestep dt...each halfstep you update v and each fullstep you update x. (you might also beable to update v each fullstep).

t=0 => initial cfg
t+0.5dt=> update v
t+1.0dt=> update x
t+1.5dt=> update v
etc.

 

[Brinx]

Useful link, with both the pseudocode and additional info:

http://artcompsci.org/kali/vol/two_body_problem_2/ch01.html

[edit]: More general versions ('higher order leapfrog') are also available. fourth-, sixth- and eighth-order leapfrog methods are available online, all of which are (naturally) symplectic. Do a search for 'Yoshida integrator', that should turn up some useful results.

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

too lazy to code yourself?

i wish that were the case.

 

[Dr Transport]

Is it not in Numerical Recipies? www.nr.com

 

[MathematicalPhysicist]

didn't find anything there about leap frog method.

 

[Dr Transport]

Try looking at the user supplied codes for Matlab and then translate the code into C if someone has done it.

 

[las3rjock]

The staggered leapfrog method is described in Numerical Recipes in C in chapter 19 (Partial Differential Equations) section 1 (Flux-Conservative Initial Value Problems) on the bottom half of page 842: http://www.nrbook.com/a/bookcpdf/c19-1.pdf