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Structure-preserving integrators are in the focus of ongoing research because of their distinguished features of robustness and long time stability. In particular, their formulation for coupled problems that include dissipative mechanisms…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Dominik Kern , Ignacio Romero , Sergio Conde Martin , Juan Carlos Garcia-Orden

We present compatible finite element space discretizations for the ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations. The magnetic field is considered both in div- and curl-conforming spaces, leading to a strongly or weakly preserved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Golo A. Wimmer , Xianzhu Tang

A multi-symplectic formulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is developed based on a Clebsch variable variational principle in which the Lagrangian consists of the kinetic minus the potential energy of the MHD fluid modified by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 G. M. Webb , J. F. McKenzie , G. P. Zank

Coronal heating has been a long-standing conundrum in solar physics. Parker's conjecture that spontaneous current singularities lead to nanoflares that heat the corona has been controversial. In ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), can genuine…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-30 Yao Zhou

In this work we make use of Livens principle (sometimes also referred to as Hamilton-Pontryagin principle) in order to obtain a novel structure-preserving integrator for mechanical systems. In contrast to the canonical Hamiltonian equations…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Philipp L. Kinon , Peter Betsch

The goal of this paper is to develop energy-preserving variational integrators for time-dependent mechanical systems with forcing. We first present the Lagrange-d'Alembert principle in the extended Lagrangian mechanics framework and derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-23 Harsh Sharma , Mayuresh Patil , Craig Woolsey

In this paper, we develop a Hamiltonian variational formulation for the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of simple adiabatically closed systems that is an extension of Hamilton's phase space principle in mechanics. We introduce the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-05 Hiroaki Yoshimura , François Gay-Balmaz

Reduced basis methods are popular for approximately solving large and complex systems of differential equations. However, conventional reduced basis methods do not generally preserve conservation laws and symmetries of the full order model.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-20 Babak Maboudi Afkham , Jan S. Hesthaven

We develop a variational integrator for the shallow-water equations on a rotating sphere. The variational integrator is built around a discretization of the continuous Euler-Poincar\'{e} reduction framework for Eulerian hydrodynamics. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-25 Rüdiger Brecht , Werner Bauer , Alexander Bihlo , François Gay-Balmaz , Scott MacLachlan

This paper proposes a novel first-order and a novel second-order fully discrete virtual element schemes based on the scalar auxiliary variable method for the three dimensional inductionless magnetohydrodynamics problem. The backward Eular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-13 Xianghai Zhou , Haiyan Su

We describe a novel splitting approach to numerical relativistic magnetohydrodynamics (RMHD) designed to expand its applicability to the domain of ultra-high magnetisation (high-$\sigma$). In this approach, the electromagnetic field is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-18 Serguei Komissarov , David Phillips

Nonlinear energy-conserving drift-fluid equations that are suitable to describe self-consistent finite-beta low-frequency electromagnetic (drift-Alfven) turbulent fluctuations in a nonuniform, anisotropic, magnetized plasma are derived from…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alain J. Brizard

In this paper we show how a Lagrangian variational principle can be used to derive the SPMHD (smoothed particle magnetohydrodynamics) equations for ideal MHD. We also consider the effect of a variable smoothing length in the SPH kernels…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. J. Price , J. J. Monaghan

Invariant finite-difference schemes for the one-dimensional shallow water equations in the presence of a magnetic field for various bottom topographies are constructed. Based on the results of the group classification recently carried out…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-28 E. I. Kaptsov , V. A. Dorodnitsyn

A version of extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) that incorporates electron inertia is obtained by constructing an action principle. Unlike MHD which freezes in magnetic flux, the present theory freezes in an alternative flux related to the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-04-01 M. Lingam , P. J. Morrison , E. Tassi

We present a structure-preserving scheme based on a recently-proposed mixed formulation for incompressible hyperelasticity formulated in principal stretches. Although there exist Hamiltonians introduced for quasi-incompressible…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Jiashen Guan , Hongyan Yuan , Ju Liu

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of mechanical systems. In this paper, we adapt discrete variational integrators for the case of mechanical systems with double-bracket dissipation. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Anthony Bloch , Sebastián J. Ferraro , David Martín de Diego , Shreyas Bharadwaj

A variational formulation for non-equilibrium thermodynamics was developed by Gay-Balmaz and Yoshimura. In a recent article, the first two authors of the present paper introduced partially cosymplectic structures as a geometric framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Jaime Bajo , Manuel de León , Asier López-Gordón

The general topic of the present paper is to study the conservation for some structural property of a given problem when discretising this problem. Precisely we are interested with Lagrangian or Hamiltonian structures and thus with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Jacky Cresson , Isabelle Greff , Charles Pierre

The magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations are generally known to be difficult to solve numerically, due to their highly nonlinear structure and the strong coupling between the electromagnetic and hydrodynamic variables, especially for high…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Fabian Laakmann , Patrick E. Farrell , Lawrence Mitchell