This section presents all temporal integration algorithms which exist in Metafor. The question to answer here is “I want to run an implicit dynamic test case, how should I do?”.

The equilibrium equation between internal forces $ F^{int} $, inertial forces $ F^{inert} $ and external forces $ F^{ext} $ must be integrated:

$$ F^{inert}+F^{int}=F^{ext}$$

The integration is done using the command getDomain().getTimeIntegration().integration() or the shortcut meta('rep1.rep2.name'). To restart, use the command getDomain().getTimeIntegration().restart(int nt) or the shortcut restart('rep1.rep2.name',nt). For these two shortcuts, it is assumed that the file name.py is in /rep1/rep2.