Forced and damped oscillators appear in the mathematical modelling of many problems in pure and applied sciences such as physics, engineering and celestial mechanics among others. Although the accuracy of the T-functi...Forced and damped oscillators appear in the mathematical modelling of many problems in pure and applied sciences such as physics, engineering and celestial mechanics among others. Although the accuracy of the T-functions series method is high, the calculus of their coefficients needs specific recurrences in each case. To avoid this inconvenience, the T-functions series method is transformed into a multistep method whose coefficients are calculated using recurrence procedures. These methods are convergent and have the same properties to the T-functions series method. Numerical examples already used by other authors are presented, such as a stiff problem, a Duffing oscillator and an equatorial satellite problem when the perturbation comes from zonal harmonics J2.展开更多
文摘Forced and damped oscillators appear in the mathematical modelling of many problems in pure and applied sciences such as physics, engineering and celestial mechanics among others. Although the accuracy of the T-functions series method is high, the calculus of their coefficients needs specific recurrences in each case. To avoid this inconvenience, the T-functions series method is transformed into a multistep method whose coefficients are calculated using recurrence procedures. These methods are convergent and have the same properties to the T-functions series method. Numerical examples already used by other authors are presented, such as a stiff problem, a Duffing oscillator and an equatorial satellite problem when the perturbation comes from zonal harmonics J2.
