Convergence of the generalized-α scheme for constrained mechanical systems

Abstract A variant of the generalized-α scheme is proposed for constrained mechanical systems represented by index-3 DAEs. Based on the analogy with linear multistep methods, an elegant convergence analysis is developed for this algorithm. Second-order convergence is demonstrated both for the generalized coordinates and the Lagrange multipliers, and those theoretical results are illustrated by numerical tests.

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