High-order implicit time integration scheme with controllable numerical dissipation based on mixed-order Padé expansions

Abstract

A single-step high-order implicit time integration scheme with controllable numerical dissipation at high frequencies is presented for the transient analysis of structural dynamic problems. The amount of numerical dissipation is controlled by a user-specified value of the spectral radius ρ∞ in the high frequency limit. Using this user-specified parameter as a weight factor, a Padé expansion of the matrix exponential solution of the equation of motion is constructed by mixing the diagonal and sub-diagonal expansions. An efficient time-stepping scheme is designed where systems of equations, similar in complexity to the standard Newmark method, are solved recursively. It is shown that the proposed high-order scheme achieves high-frequency dissipation, while minimizing low-frequency dissipation and period errors. The effectiveness of the provided dissipation control and the efficiency of the scheme are demonstrated by numerical examples. A simple guideline for the choice of the controlling parameter and time step size is provided. The source codes written in MATLAB and FORTRAN are available for download at: https://github.com/ChongminSong/HighOrderTimeIntegration.