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It is well-known that if a symplectic integrator is applied to a Hamiltonian system, then the modified equation, whose solutions interpolate the numerical solutions, is again Hamiltonian. We investigate this property from the variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-07 Mats Vermeeren

We present a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent numerical scheme for classical magnetohydrodynamics, incorporating viscosity, magnetic resistivity, heat transfer, and thermoelectric effect. The governing equations are…

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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

This paper considers magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) and some of its applications from the perspective of differential geometry, considering the dynamics of an ideal fluid flow and magnetic field on a general three-dimensional manifold, equipped…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-07-26 Andrew D. Gilbert , Jacques Vanneste

Compatible discretizations, such as finite element exterior calculus, provide a discretization framework that respect the cohomological structure of the de Rham complex, which can be used to systematically construct stable mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

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

Discrete Hamiltonian variational integrators are derived from Type II and Type III generating functions for symplectic maps, and in this paper we establish a variational error analysis result that relates the order of accuracy of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Jeremy M. Schmitt , Melvin Leok

Variational integrators are derived for structure-preserving simulation of stochastic forced Hamiltonian systems. The derivation is based on a stochastic discrete Hamiltonian which approximates a type-II stochastic generating function for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-07 Michael Kraus , Tomasz M. Tyranowski

The fully nonlinear (geometric and material) system of Field Dislocation Mechanics is reviewed to establish an exact analogy with the equations of ideal magnetohydrodynamics (ideal MHD) under suitable physically simplifying circumstances.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Amit Acharya

Formation control of autonomous agents can be seen as a physical system of individuals interacting with local potentials, and whose evolution can be described by a Lagrangian function. In this paper, we construct and implement forced…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-02 Leonardo Colombo , Hector Garcia de Marina

In this paper, we propose a conservative nonconforming virtual element method for the full stationary incompressible magnetohydrodynamics model. We leverage the virtual element satisfactory divergence-free property to ensure mass…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Xiaojing Dong , Yunqing Huang , Tianwen Wang

A class of variational schemes for the hydrodynamic-electrodynamic model of lossless free-electron gas in a quasineutral background is developed for high-quality simulations of surface plasmon polaritons. The Lagrangian density of lossless…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Qiang Chen , Lifei Geng , Xiang Chen , Xiaojun Hao , Chuanchuan Wang , Xiaoyang Wang

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…

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In this paper, we develop a structure-preserving discretization of the Lagrangian framework for electromagnetism, combining techniques from variational integrators and discrete differential forms. This leads to a general family of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-05 Ari Stern , Yiying Tong , Mathieu Desbrun , Jerrold E. Marsden

In this paper, we study the Lagrangian functions for a class of second-order differential systems arising from physics. For such systems, we present necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of Lagrangian functions. Based on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Yihan Shen , Yajuan Sun

In this paper we study a discrete variational optimal control problem for the rigid body. The cost to be minimized is the external torque applied to move the rigid body from an initial condition to a pre-specified terminal condition.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Islam I. Hussein , Melvin Leok , Amit K. Sanyal , Anthony M. Bloch

In this paper, we propose a geometric integrator for nonholonomic mechanical systems. It can be applied to discrete Lagrangian systems specified through a discrete Lagrangian defined on QxQ, where Q is the configuration manifold, and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-13 S. Ferraro , D. Iglesias , D. Martín de Diego

Discretizing variational principles, as opposed to discretizing differential equations, leads to discrete-time analogues of mechanics, and, systematically, to geometric numerical integrators. The phase space of such variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Charles Cuell , George W. Patrick

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

We present an adaptive multiresolution method for the numerical simulation of ideal magnetohydrodynamics in two space dimensions. The discretization uses a finite volume scheme based on a Cartesian mesh and an explicit compact Rung-Kutta…