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With this contribution, we give a complete and comprehensive framework for modeling the dynamics of complex mechanical structures as port-Hamiltonian systems. This is motivated by research on the potential of lightweight construction using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Alexander Warsewa , Michael Böhm , Oliver Sawodny , Cristina Tarín

We consider a general discretization strategy for Hamiltonian field theories generated by Lie-Poisson brackets which we call dual PIC (DPIC). This method involves prescribing two different discrete representations of the dynamical variable…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison

We introduce a new definition of discrete-time port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS), which results from structure-preserving discretization of explicit PHS in time. We discretize the underlying continuous-time Dirac structure with the collocation…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Paul Kotyczka , Laurent Lefèvre

The discretization of Cartan's exterior calculus of differential forms has been fruitful in a variety of theoretical and practical endeavors: from computational electromagnetics to the development of Finite-Element Exterior Calculus, the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Theo Braune , Yiying Tong , François Gay-Balmaz , Mathieu Desbrun

A conservative primitive variable discrete exterior calculus (DEC) discretization of the Navier-Stokes equations is performed. An existing DEC method (Mohamed, M. S., Hirani, A. N., Samtaney, R. (2016). Discrete exterior calculus…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-02-24 Pankaj Jagad , Abdullah Abukhwejah , Mamdouh Mohamed , Ravi Samtaney

This paper presents a structure-preserving spatial discretization method for distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian systems. The class of considered systems are hyperbolic systems of two conservation laws in arbitrary spatial dimension and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Flávio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro , Denis Matignon , Laurent Lefèvre

We derive a reformulation of the linearized Arnowitt-Deser-Misner (ADM) equations as a Hodge-Dirac wave system with the divdiv complex, addressing challenges in numerical relativity such as gauge fixing, constraint propagation, and tensor…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-26 Marien-Lorenzo Hanot , Kaibo Hu

Different representations of dissipative Hamiltonian and port-Hamiltonian differential-algebraic equations (DAE) systems are presented and compared. Using global geometric and algebraic points of view, translations between the different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-10 V. Mehrmann , A. J. van der Schaft

This article reports on the confluence of two streams of research, one emanating from the fields of numerical analysis and scientific computation, the other from topology and geometry. In it we consider the numerical discretization of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Ragnar Winther

This work contains a brief and elementary exposition of the foundations of Poisson and symplectic geometries, with an emphasis on applications for Hamiltonian systems with second-class constraints. In particular, we clarify the geometric…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Alexei A. Deriglazov

A broad class of nonlinear acoustic wave models possess a Hamiltonian structure in their dissipation-free limit and a gradient flow structure for their dissipative dynamics. This structure may be exploited to design numerical methods which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison

We consider a numerical approach for the incompressible surface Navier-Stokes equation. The approach is based on the covariant form and uses discrete exterior calculus (DEC) in space and a semi-implicit discretization in time. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Ingo Nitschke , Sebastian Reuther , Axel Voigt

We develop in this work the first polytopal complexes of differential forms. These complexes, inspired by the Discrete De Rham and the Virtual Element approaches, are discrete versions of the de Rham complex of differential forms built on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Francesco Bonaldi , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jerome Droniou , Kaibo Hu

In these notes, we present an alternative version of discrete Dirac mechanics using Dirac structures. We first establish a notion of 'continuous Dirac system' and then propose a definition of discrete Dirac system, proving that it is…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-08-19 Matías I. Caruso , Javier Fernández , Cora Tori , Marcela Zuccalli

We present a theory and applications of discrete exterior calculus on simplicial complexes of arbitrary finite dimension. This can be thought of as calculus on a discrete space. Our theory includes not only discrete differential forms but…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mathieu Desbrun , Anil N. Hirani , Melvin Leok , Jerrold E. Marsden

In this article, we present the structure-preserving discretization of linear one-dimensional port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems of two conservation laws using discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We recall the DG discretization procedure which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

A new geometric procedure to construct symplectic methods for constrained mechanical systems is developed in this paper. The definition of a map coming from the notion of retraction maps allows to adapt the continuous problem to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-10 María Barbero Liñán , David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo T. Sato Martín de Almagro

TRiSK-type numerical schemes are widely used in both atmospheric and oceanic dynamical cores, due to their discrete analogues of important properties such as energy conservation and steady geostrophic modes. In this work, we show that these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Christopher Eldred , Werner Bauer

We want to propose a new discretization ansatz for the second order Hessian complex exploiting benefits of isogeometric analysis, namely the possibility of high-order convergence and smoothness of test functions. Although our approach is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-14 Jeremias Arf , Bernd Simeon

We investigate discretization strategies for a recently introduced class of energy-based models. The model class encompasses classical port-Hamiltonian systems, generalized gradient flows, and certain systems with algebraic constraints. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Robert Altmann , Attila Karsai , Philipp Schulze