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This paper presents a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluid dynamics. The numerical scheme is obtained by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Werner Bauer , François Gay-Balmaz

A notion of implicit difference equation on a Lie groupoid is introduced and an algorithm for extracting the integrable part (backward or/and forward) is formulated. As an application, we prove that discrete Lagrangian dynamics on a Lie…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-04-04 D. Iglesias , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego , E. Padron

A new theoretical approach to non-equilibrium statistical systems has recently been proposed by the author, a co-author and others. It is based on a variational principle which is associated with the discrepancy of a path through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-06 Richard Kleeman

The geometric nature of Euler fluids has been clearly identified and extensively studied over the years, culminating with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions of fluid dynamics where the configuration space is defined as the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Dmitry Pavlov , Patrick Mullen , Yiying Tong , Eva Kanso , Jerrold E. Marsden , Mathieu Desbrun

Accurate simulations of ice sheet dynamics, mantle convection, lava flow, and other highly viscous free-surface flows involve solving the coupled Stokes/free-surface equations. In this paper, we theoretically analyze the stability and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Igor Tominec , Lukas Lundgren , André Löfgren , Josefin Ahlkrona

The Euler--Poincar\'e equations, firstly introduced by Henri Poincar\'e in 1901, arise from the application of Lagrangian mechanics to systems on Lie groups that exhibit symmetries, particularly in the contexts of classical mechanics and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Yusuke Ono , Simone Fiori , Linyu Peng

Employing a phase space which includes the (Riemann-Liouville) fractional derivative of curves evolving on real space, we develop a restricted variational principle for Lagrangian systems yielding the so-called restricted fractional…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Fernando Jiménez , Sina Ober-Blöbaum

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

The Clebsch method provides a unifying approach for deriving variational principles for continuous and discrete dynamical systems where elements of a vector space are used to control dynamics on the cotangent bundle of a Lie group…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-30 C. J. Cotter , D. D. Holm

This paper surveys results found by the authors in the previous papers (see for example, A. Duyunova, V. Lychagin, S. Tychkov, Differential invariants for spherical layer flows of a viscid fluid, Journal of Geometry and Physics, 130,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-06 Anna Duyunova , Valentin Lychagin , Sergey Tychkov

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

In this paper, we describe a geometric setting for higher-order lagrangian problems on Lie groups. Using left-trivialization of the higher-order tangent bundle of a Lie group and an adaptation of the classical Skinner-Rusk formalism, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Leonardo Colombo , David Martin de Diego

We study thermodynamical formalism of a discrete nonautonomous dynamical system determined by a sequence of continuous self-maps of a compact metric space. Using the methods of Convex Analysis we get variational principles for pressure…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Andrzej Biś

We analyse the multiscale properties of energy-conserving upwind-stabilised finite element discretisations of the two-dimensional incompressible Euler equations. We focus our attention on two particular methods: the Lie derivative…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-02 Andrea Natale , Colin J. Cotter

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 dynamics of evolving fluid films in the viscous Stokes limit is relevant to various applications, such as the modeling of lipid bilayers in cells. While the governing equations were formulated by Scriven in 1960, solving for the flow of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-01-29 Cuncheng Zhu , David Saintillan , Albert Chern

We present a generalization of Lie's method for finding the group invariant solutions to a system of partial differential equations. Our generalization relaxes the standard transversality assumption and encompasses the common situation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 I. Anderson , M. Fels , C. Torre

The GENERIC structure allows for a unified treatment of different discrete models of hydrodynamics. We first propose a finite volume Lagrangian discretization of the continuum equations of hydrodynamics through the Voronoi tessellation. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mar Serrano , Pep Español

Lie group theory states that knowledge of a $m$-parameters solvable group of symmetries of a system of ordinary differential equations allows to reduce by $m$ the number of equation. We apply this principle by finding dilatations and…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Évelyne Hubert , Alexandre Sedoglavic

The article considers smooth optimization of functions on Lie groups. By generalizing NAG variational principle in vector space (Wibisono et al., 2016) to Lie groups, continuous Lie-NAG dynamics which are guaranteed to converge to local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Molei Tao , Tomoki Ohsawa