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A variational integrator of arbitrarily high-order on the special orthogonal group $SO(n)$ is constructed using the polar decomposition and the constrained Galerkin method. It has the advantage of avoiding the second-order derivative of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-27 Xuefeng Shen , Khoa Tran , Melvin Leok

This paper develops the theory of affine Euler-Poincar\'e and affine Lie-Poisson reductions and applies these processes to various examples of complex fluids, including Yang-Mills and Hall magnetohydrodynamics for fluids and superfluids,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-26 François Gay-Balmaz , Tudor S. Ratiu

Using an interpolant form for the gradient of a function of position, we write an integral version of the conservation equations for a fluid. In the appropriate limit, these become the usual conservation laws of mass, momentum and energy.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Victor Romero-Rochin , J. Miguel Rubi

We propose and analyze a structure-preserving space-time variational discretization method for the Cahn-Hilliard-Navier-Stokes system. Uniqueness and stability for the discrete problem is established in the presence of concentration…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Aaron Brunk , Herbert Egger , Oliver Habrich , Maria Lukacova-Medvidova

In this paper we show how almost cosymplectic structures are a natural framework to study thermodynamical systems. Indeed, we are able to obtain the same evolution equations obtained previously by Gay-Balmaz and Yoshimura (see Entropy,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-12-25 Manuel de León , Jaime Bajo

Lie symmetry group method is applied to study the boundary-layer equations for two-dimensional steady flow of an incompressible, viscous fluid near a stagnation point at a heated stretching sheet placed in a porous medium equation. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-07-06 Mehdi Nadjafikhah , Seyed Reza Hejazi

In this contribution, we derive a consistent variational formulation for computational homogenization methods and show that traditional FE2 and IGA2 approaches are special discretization and solution techniques of this most general…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Christian Hesch , Felix Schmidt , Stefan Schuß

Lie group analysis of differential equations is a generally recognized method, which provides invariant solutions, integrability, conservation laws etc. In this paper we present three characteristic examples of the construction of invariant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Margarita Bakirova , Vladimir Dorodnitsyn , Roman Kozlov

As a first step towards the numerical analysis of the stochastic primitive equations of the atmosphere and oceans, we study their time discretization by an implicit Euler scheme. From deterministic viewpoint the 3D Primitive Equations are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-04-14 Nathan Glatt-Holtz , Roger Temam , Chuntian Wang

We consider generalized linear transient convection-diffusion problems for differential forms on bounded domains in $\mathbb{R}^{n}$. These involve Lie derivatives with respect to a prescribed smooth vector field. We construct both new…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Holger Heumann , Ralf Hiptmair

We study the symmetry reduction of nonlinear partial differential equations which are used for describing diffusion processes in nonhomogeneous medium. We find ansatzes reducing partial differential equations to systems of ordinary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-16 Ivan M. Tsyfra , Wojciech Rzeszut , Vsevolod A. Vladimirov

We propose a novel structure preserving discretization for viscous and resistive magnetohydrodynamics. We follow the recent line of work on discrete least action principle for fluid and plasma equation, incorporating the recent advances to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Valentin Carlier

We develop a unified continuum modeling framework for viscous fluids and hyperelastic solids using the Gibbs free energy as the thermodynamic potential. This framework naturally leads to a pressure primitive variable formulation for the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-03-03 Ju Liu , Alison L. Marsden

This study proposes a novel spatial discretization procedure for the compressible Euler equations that guarantees entropy conservation at a discrete level for thermally perfect gases. The procedure is based on a locally conservative…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-11 Alessandro Aiello , Carlo De Michele , Gennaro Coppola

Poisson brackets provide the mathematical structure required to identify the reversible contribution to dynamic phenomena in nonequilibrium thermodynamics. This mathematical structure is deeply linked to Lie groups and their Lie algebras.…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-10 Hans Christian Öttinger

We develop a unified theory for continuous in time finite element discretisations of partial differential equations posed in evolving domains including the consideration of equations posed on evolving surfaces and bulk domains as well…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Charles M. Elliott , Thomas Ranner

We present an algorithm for determining the Lie point symmetries of differential equations on fixed non transforming lattices, i.e. equations involving both continuous and discrete independent variables. The symmetries of a specific…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-04-30 D. Levi , P. Winternitz , R. Yamilov

In this paper, we propose a variational formulation to study the singular evolution equations that govern the dynamics of surface modulations on crystals below the roughening temperature. The basic idea of the formulation is to expand the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 V. B. Shenoy , A. Ramasubramaniam , L. B. Freund

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

A simple local proof of Noether's Second Theorem is given. This proof immediately leads to a generalization of the theorem, yielding conservation laws and/or explicit relationships between the Euler--Lagrange equations of any variational…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Peter E. Hydon , Elizabeth L. Mansfield