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Fluid reductions of the Vlasov-Amp{\`e}re equations that preserve the Hamiltonian structure of the parent kinetic model are investigated. Hamiltonian closures using the first four moments of the Vlasov distribution are obtained, and all…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-17 M Perin , C Chandre , P. J. Morrison , E Tassi

We present a novel framework for Finite Element Particle-in-Cell methods based on the discretization of the underlying Hamiltonian structure of the Vlasov-Maxwell system. We derive a semi-discrete Poisson bracket, which retains the defining…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-05 Michael Kraus , Katharina Kormann , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

Using the Harmonic map ansatz, we reduce the axisymmetric, static Einstein-Maxwell equations coupled with a magnetized perfect fluid to a set of Poisson-like equations. We were able to integrate the Poisson equations in terms of an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Tonatiuh Matos

The equations of classical spin-orbit motion can be extended to a Hamiltonian system in 9-dimensional phase space by introducing a coupled spin-orbit Poisson bracket and a Hamiltonian function. After this extension and by establishing…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 V. V. Balandin , N. I. Golubeva

The Hamiltonian structure of the gauge-free gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell equations is presented in terms of a Hamiltonian functional and a gyrokinetic Vlasov-Maxwell bracket. The bracket is used to show that the gyrokinetic angular-momentum…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Alain J. Brizard

The problem of finding superintegrable Hamiltonians and their integrals of motion can be reduced to solving a series of compatibility equations that result from the overdetermination of the commutator or Poisson bracket relations. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Ian Marquette , Anthony Parr

A systematic method to derive the Hamiltonian and Nambu form for the shallow water equations, using the conservation for energy and potential enstrophy, is presented. Different mechanisms, such as vortical flows and emission of gravity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-05-01 Richard Blender , Gualtiero Badin

Using a Poisson bracket representation, in 3D, of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$, we first use highest weight representations to embed this into larger Lie algebras. These are then interpreted as symmetry and conformal symmetry algebras…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2018-03-19 Allan P. Fordy , Qing Huang

Given a first order dynamical system possessing a commutative algebra of dynamical symmetries, we show that, under certain conditions, there exists a Poisson structure on an open neighbourhood of its regular (not necessarily compact)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-26 G. Giachetta , L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

We perform a numerical analysis of a class of randomly perturbed {H}amiltonian systems and {P}oisson systems. For the considered additive noise perturbation of such systems, we show the long time behavior of the energy and quadratic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-29 David Cohen , Gilles Vilmart

Techniques for coordinate changes that depend on both dependent and independent variables are developed and applied to the Maxwell-Vlasov Hamiltonian theory. Particle coordinate changes with a new velocity variable dependent on the magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2012-12-14 P. J. Morrison , M. Vittot , Loic de Guillebon

Three geometric formulations of the Hamiltonian structure of the macroscopic Maxwell equations are given: one in terms of the double de Rham complex, one in terms of L2 duality, and one utilizing an abstract notion of duality. The final of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-05-01 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

The Vlasov--Maxwell equations are used for the kinetic description of magnetized plasmas. As they are posed in an up to 3+3 dimensional phase space, solving this problem is extremely expensive from a computational point of view. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-29 Lukas Einkemmer , Alexander Ostermann , Chiara Piazzola

The Hamiltonian structures of several hybrid kinetic-fluid models are identified explicitly, upon considering collisionless Vlasov dynamics for the hot particles interacting with a bulk fluid. After presenting different pressure-coupling…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 Cesare Tronci

The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of electromagnetism are reviewed and the Maxwell equations are obtained from the Hamiltonian for a system of many electric charges. It is shown that three of the equations which were obtained from…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Paul Bracken

We show how the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm can sometimes be speeded up by "splitting" the Hamiltonian in a way that allows much of the movement around the state space to be done at low computational cost. One context where this is…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-17 Babak Shahbaba , Shiwei Lan , Wesley O. Johnson , Radford M. Neal

We present and compare different numerical schemes for the integration of the variational equations of autonomous Hamiltonian systems whose kinetic energy is quadratic in the generalized momenta and whose potential is a function of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-17 Ch. Skokos , E. Gerlach

A fully variational, unstructured, electromagnetic particle-in-cell integrator is developed for integration of the Vlasov-Maxwell equations. Using the formalism of Discrete Exterior Calculus, the field solver, interpolation scheme and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan Squire , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

In this paper, we discuss an extension of the Split Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (Split HMC) method for Gaussian process model (GPM). This method is based on splitting the Hamiltonian in a way that allows much of the movement around the state…

Computation · Statistics 2012-07-17 Shiwei Lan , Babak Shahbaba

We here investigate the efficient implementation of the energy-conserving methods named Hamiltonian Boundary Value Methods (HBVMs) recently introduced for the numerical solution of Hamiltonian problems. In this note, we describe an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-22 Luigi Brugnano , Gianluca Frasca Caccia , Felice Iavernaro