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In this paper, we establish the non-uniqueness of solutions to the ideal magnetohydrodynamics equations in any dimension greater than three by proving the existence of infinitely many compactly supported weak solutions. In particular, these…
This paper provides a first contribution to port-Hamiltonian modeling of district heating networks. By introducing a model hierarchy of flow equations on the network, this work aims at a thermodynamically consistent port-Hamiltonian…
Explicit and semi-explicit geometric integration schemes for dissipative perturbations of Hamiltonian systems are analyzed. The dissipation is characterized by a small parameter $\epsilon$, and the schemes under study preserve the…
The effectiveness of the Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for learning the dynamics of constrained Hamiltonian systems is demonstrated using the Dirac theory of constraints for regular systems with holonomic constraints and systems…
Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. In this paper we present a method to construct symplectic-momentum integrators for…
In this paper we present a method to robustify energy-shaping controllers for port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems by adding an integral action that rejects unknown additive disturbances. The proposed controller preserves the pH structure and, by…
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…
This work introduces a port-Hamiltonian (PH) model for constrained mechanical systems, which is directly derived from the Lagrangian equations of motion. The present PH framework incorporates a singularity-free director representation of…
A direct method for the computation of polynomial conservation laws of polynomial systems of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) in multi-dimensions is presented. The method avoids advanced differential-geometric tools. Instead,…
Direct methods for the simulation of optimal control problems apply a specific discretization to the dynamics of the problem, and the discrete adjoint method is suitable to calculate corresponding conditions to approximate an optimal…
We study the integrability of a two-dimensional Hamiltonian system with a gyroscopic term and a non-homogeneous potential composed of two homogeneous components of different degrees. The model describes the motion of a particle in a plane…
We study the geometric particle-in-cell methods for an electrostatic hybrid plasma model. In this model, ions are described by the fully kinetic equations, electron density is determined by the Boltzmann relation, and space-charge effects…
Hybrid systems combine both discrete and continuous state dynamics. Power electronic inverters are inherently hybrid systems: they are controlled via discrete-valued switching inputs which determine the evolution of the continuous-valued…
An interesting family of geometric integrators for Lagrangian systems can be defined using discretizations of the Hamilton's principle of critical action. This family of geometric integrators is called variational integrators. In this…
An energy-based modeling framework for the nonlinear dynamics of spatial Cosserat rods undergoing large displacements and rotations is proposed. The mixed formulation features independent displacement, velocity and stress variables and is…
Non-holonomic mechanical systems can be described by a degenerate almost-Poisson structure (dropping the Jacobi identity) in the constrained space. If enough symmetries transversal to the constraints are present, the system reduces to a…
We consider the design of structure-preserving discretization methods for the solution of systems of boundary controlled Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) thanks to the port-Hamiltonian formalism. We first provide a novel general…
We show that, under suitable conditions, finite-dimensional systems describing invariant solutions of partial differential equations (PDEs) inherit local Hamiltonian operators through the mechanism of invariant reduction, which applies…
In this paper we propose and investigate a general approach to constructing local energy-preserving algorithms which can be of arbitrarily high order in time for solving Hamiltonian PDEs. This approach is based on the temporal…
This paper presents a scalable tensor-based approach to computing controllability and observability-type energy functions for nonlinear dynamical systems with polynomial drift and linear input and output maps. Using Kronecker product…