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In this paper we investigate a variational discretization for the class of mechanical systems in presence of symmetries described by the action of a Lie group which reduces the phase space to a (non-trivial) principal bundle. By introducing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-07-17 Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Fernando Jiménez

Since the 1970s contact geometry has been recognized as an appropriate framework for the geometric formulation of the state properties of thermodynamic systems, without, however, addressing the formulation of non-equilibrium thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Arjan van der Schaft , Bernhard Maschke

In this paper we extend the previously introduced class of boundary port-Hamiltonian systems to boundary control systems where the variational derivative of the Hamiltonian functional is replaced by a pair of reciprocal differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-04 Bernhard Maschke , Arjan van der Schaft

We address the problem of constructing numerical integrators for nonholonomic Lagrangian systems that enjoy appropriate discrete versions of the geometric properties of the continuous flow, including the preservation of energy. Building on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Jorge Cortes

Port-Hamiltonian systems theory provides a structured approach to modelling, optimization and control of multiphysical systems. Yet, its relationship to thermodynamics seems to be unclear. The Hamiltonian is traditionally thought of as…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Markus Lohmayer , Paul Kotyczka , Sigrid Leyendecker

Interconnected systems are an important class of mathematical models, as they allow for the construction of complex, hierarchical, multiphysics, and multiscale models by the interconnection of simpler subsystems. Lagrange--Dirac mechanical…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-03-08 Helen Parks , Melvin Leok

Constructions introduced by Dirac for singular Lagrangians are extended and reinterpreted to cover cases when kernel distributions are either nonintegrable or of nonconstant rank, and constraint sets need not be closed.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-07-22 Larry Bates , Jedrzej Sniatycki

We present a phenomenological Lagrangian and Poisson brackets for obtaining nondissipative hydrodynamic theory of supersolids. A Lagrangian is constructed on the basis of unification of the principles of non-equilibrium thermodynamics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-17 A. S. Peletminskii

There is a review of the main mathematical properties of system described by singular Lagrangians and requiring Dirac-Bergmann theory of constraints at the Hamiltonian level. The following aspects are discussed: i) the connection of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Luca Lusanna

Hydrodynamic turbulence is studied as a constrained system from the point of view of metafluid dynamics. We present a Lagrangian description for this new theory of turbulence inspired from the analogy with electromagnetism. Consequently it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. C. R. Mendes , W. Oliveira , F. I. Takakura

This paper presents a geometric description of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems on Lie affgebroids subject to affine nonholonomic constraints. We define the notion of nonholonomically constrained system, and characterize regularity…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Iglesias , J. C. Marrero , D. Martin de Diego , D. Sosa

The aim of this paper is to show that the Lagrange-d'Alembert and its equivalent the Gauss and Appel principle are not the only way to deduce the equations of motion of the nonholonomic systems. Instead of them, here we consider the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 J. Llibre , R. Ramírez , N. Sadovskaia

We show that the contact dynamics obtained from the Herglotz variational principle can be described as a constrained nonholonomic or vakonomic ordinary Lagrangian system depending on a dissipative variable with an adequate choice of one…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Manuel de León , Manuel Laínz , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Narciso Román-Roy

In this article, we generalize the theory of discrete Lagrangian mechanics and variational integrators in two principal directions. First, we show that Lagrangian submanifolds of symplectic groupoids give rise to discrete dynamical systems,…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Juan Carlos Marrero , David Martín de Diego , Ari Stern

The power conserving interconnection of port-thermodynamic systems via their power ports results in another port-thermodynamic system, while the same holds for the rate of entropy increasing interconnection via their entropy flow ports.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-14 Arjan van der Schaft

Motivated by recent work in this area we expand on a generalization of port-Hamiltonian systems that is obtained by replacing the Hamiltonian function representing energy storage by a general Lagrangian subspace. This leads to a new class…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-07 Arjan van der Schaft , Bernhard Maschke

The work is devoted to studying some new classical electrodynamics models of interacting charged point particles and the aspects of the quantization via the Dirac procedure related to them. Based on the vacuum field theory no-geometry…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-07 N. N. Bogolubov , A. K. Prykarpatsky

This paper offers a geometric framework for modeling port-Hamiltonian systems on discrete manifolds. The simplicial Dirac structure, capturing the topological laws of the system, is defined in terms of primal and dual cochains related by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2012-01-30 Marko Seslija , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Arjan van der Schaft

Following the analytic approach to thermodynamics developed by Stueckelberg, we study the evolution equations of a closed thermodynamic system consisting of point particles in a fluid. We obtain a system of coupled differential equations…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-02-17 C. Gruber , S. D. Brechet

The variational method is very important in mathematical and theoretical physics because it allows us to describe the natural systems by physical quantities independently from the frame of reference used. A global and statistical approach…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-01-10 Umberto Lucia