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Asynchronous Variational integrator

MATLAB Implementation of AVI

Submitted by Will Fong on

I work with AVI in my research so I have included a MATLAB implementation of AVI for the 1-D harmonic oscillator. The code will solve the equation a + gamma * v + (k1 + k2 + k3) x = 0 with any initial conditions x(0) and v(0). Here the spring constant has been artifically split into three spring constants to simulate multiple potentials. If there is only one potential AVI simplifies to the usual Velocity Verlet integrator. The friction term is absorbed into the k1 term in the implementation. The main idea in the implementation is to construct the propagation matrix for the system (x,v) for the different potentials.

regarding time integrators : AVI vs Subcycling

Submitted by Kapil.Nandwana on

Hi to all :

This is my first blog entry . And I have only recently started my Research work (just 2 months) .So please bear with me my lack of thorough knowledge in the topic .

What I want to know is "what is the impact of the papers on Asynchronous Variational Integrators and Variational Integrators (published in 2003) ?" I mean what I was wondering is given that they have so many beneficial properties , how many researcher have actually started using this technique of time integration in their research .