Bowie integrator and the nonlinear pendulum
The Endeavour 2025-12-23
Summary:
I recently learned of Bowie’s numerical method for solving ordinary differential equations of the form y″ = f(y) via Alex Scarazzini’s masters thesis [1]. The only reference I’ve been able to find for the method, other than [1], is the NASA Orbital Flight Handbook from 1963. The handbook describes the method as “a method employed […]
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