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Numerical models of weather and climate critically depend on long-term stability of integrators for systems of hyperbolic conservation laws. While such stability is often obtained from (physical or numerical) dissipation terms, physical…

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Conventional explicit electromagnetic particle-in-cell (PIC) algorithms do not conserve discrete energy exactly. Time-centered fully implicit PIC algorithms can conserve discrete energy exactly, but may introduce large dispersion errors in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Guangye Chen , Luis Chacón , Lin Yin , Brian J. Albright , David J. Stark , Robert F. Bird

The leapfrog integrator is routinely used within the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method and its variants. We give strong numerical evidence that alternative, easy to implement algorithms yield fewer rejections with a given computational effort.…

Computation · Statistics 2021-04-05 M. P. Calvo , D. Sanz-Alonso , J. M. Sanz-Serna

In this paper we will study some interesting properties of modifications of the Euler-Poincar\'e equations when we add a special type of dissipative force, so that the equations of motion can be described using the metriplectic formalism.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Anthony Bloch , Marta Farré Puiggalí , David Martín de Diego

Symplectic integration algorithms have become popular in recent years in long-term orbital integrations because these algorithms enforce certain conservation laws that are intrinsic to Hamiltonian systems. For problems with large variations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Man Hoi Lee , Martin J. Duncan , Harold F. Levison

Dynamical low-rank approximation, as has been demonstrated recently, can be extremely efficient in solving kinetic equations. However, a major deficiency is that they do not preserve the structure of the underlying physical problem. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann , Carmen Scalone

This article is concerned with the dynamics of a mixture of gases. Under the assumption that all the gases are isothermal and inviscid, we show that the governing equations have an elegant conservation-dissipation structure. With the help…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-02-13 Zaibao Yang , Wen-An Yong , Yi Zhu

We develop the equations of motion for full body models that describe the dynamics of rigid bodies, acting under their mutual gravity. The equations are derived using a variational approach where variations are defined on the Lie group of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

We present a new molecular-dynamics algorithm for integrating the equations of motion for a system of particles interacting with mixed continuous/impulsive forces. This method, which we call Impulsive Verlet, is constructed using operator…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yao A. Houndonougbo , Brian B. Laird , Benedict J. Leimkuhler

We present a novel structure-preserving framework for solving the Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system of equations using a particle in cell (PIC) discretization combined with discrete gradient time integrators. The Vlasov-Poisson-Landau system is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Daniel S. Finn , Joseph V. Pusztay , Matthew G. Knepley , Mark F. Adams

Recently, an extended version of magnetohydrodynamics that incorporates electron inertia, dubbed inertial magnetohydrodynamics, has been proposed. This model features a noncanonical Hamiltonian formulation with a number of conserved…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Michael Kraus

In this work we introduce a geometric integrator for molecular dynamics simulations of physical systems in the canonical ensemble. In particular, we consider the equations arising from the so-called density dynamics algorithm with any…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Diego Tapias , David P. Sanders , Alessandro Bravetti

Symmetry properties of conservation laws of partial differential equations are developed by using the general method of conservation law multipliers. As main results, simple conditions are given for characterizing when a conservation law…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Stephen C. Anco

Conservation laws are formulated for systems of differential equations by using symmetries and adjoint symmetries, and an application to systems of evolution equations is made, together with illustrative examples. The formulation does not…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2017-07-13 Wen-Xiu Ma

As is well known, energy is generally deemed as one of the most important physical invariants in many conservative problems and hence it is of remarkable interest to consider numerical methods which are able to preserve it. In this paper,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Wensheng Tang

In this paper, energy-preserving methods are formulated and studied for solving charged-particle dynamics. We first formulate the scheme of energy-preserving methods and analyze its basic properties including algebraic order and symmetry.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-31 Ting Li , Bin Wang

Integrable difference equations commonly have more low-order conservation laws than occur for nonintegrable difference equations of similar complexity. We use this empirical observation to sift a large class of difference equations, in…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2009-09-05 Peter E. Hydon , Claude-M. Viallet

The Sllod equations of motion enable modeling of homogeneous flow at the atomic scale, and are commonly used to predict fluid properties such as viscosity. However, few publicly available codes support such simulations, and those that do…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Sanderson , Debra J. Searles

Adaptive precision molecular dynamics simulations have developed along energy- and force-coupling approaches, which allow for a continuous transition between different particle descriptions or interaction potentials. Most approaches…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 David Immel , Ralf Drautz , Godehard Sutmann

We study how conservation laws shape the spreading of quantum coherence in many-body dynamics. Focusing on $U(1)$-symmetric random circuits, charge-and-dipole conserving circuits, as well as ergodic Hamiltonian dynamics, we probe coherences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Sreemayee Aditya , Emanuele Tirrito , Piotr Sierant , Xhek Turkeshi