Symmetry in Numerical Solutions
A special issue of Symmetry (ISSN 2073-8994). This special issue belongs to the section "Mathematics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 2
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Dear Colleagues,
Many physical systems—such as those governed by conservation of energy, momentum, and angular momentum—possess inherent symmetries. A central challenge in developing numerical algorithms and schemes to solve these continuous systems is the preservation of geometric or algebraic invariants (e.g., conservation laws, time reversibility, and rotational invariance) during discretization. Standard methods often introduce discretization errors that break symmetry, leading to numerical instabilities, unphysical artifacts, or long-term drift in conserved quantities.
This Special Issue emphasizes the development of accurate, stable, and state-of-the-art methods for solving systems arising in celestial mechanics, molecular dynamics, quantum physics, and related fields, with the goal of ensuring physically faithful solutions in long-term simulations.
Dr. Chuan Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conservation
- geometric integration
- symplectic
- invariants
- discretization
- structure preserving
- stability
- Hamiltonian
- time-reversibility
- long-term simulation
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