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We provide an introduction to infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. As this research field is quite rich, we restrict ourselves to the class of infinite-dimensional linear port-Hamiltonian systems on a one-dimensional spatial…
The solution of constrained linear partial-differential equations can be described via parametric representations of linear relations. To study these representations, we provide a novel definition of boundary triplets for linear relations…
We consider networks of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems $\mathfrak{S}_i$ on one-dimensional spatial domains. These subsystems of port-Hamiltonian type are interconnected via boundary control and observation and are allowed to…
We characterize the well-posedness of a class of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems with boundary control and observation. This class includes in particular the Euler-Bernoulli beam equations and more generally 1D linear…
Infinite-dimensional linear port-Hamiltonian systems on a one-dimensional spatial domain with full boundary control and without internal damping are studied. This class of systems includes models of beams and waves as well as the transport…
In this article we study a class of hyperbolic partial differential equations of order one on the semi-axis. The so-called port-Hamiltonian systems cover for instance the wave equation and the transport equation, but also networks of the…
We discuss a class of linear control problems in a Hilbert space setting. This class encompasses such diverse systems as port-Hamiltonian systems, Maxwell's equations with boundary control or the acoustic equations with boundary control and…
Stability and stabilization of linear port-Hamiltonian systems on infinite-dimensional spaces are investigated. This class is general enough to include models of beams and waves as well as transport and Schr\"odinger equations with boundary…
The recent approach based on Hamiltonian systems and the implicit parametri\-za\-tion theorem, provides a general fixed domain approximation method in shape optimization problems, using optimal control theory. In previous works, we have…
Stochastic port-Hamiltonian systems on infinite-dimensional spaces governed by It\^o stochastic differential equations (SDEs) are introduced and some properties of this new class of systems are studied. They are an extension of stochastic…
We consider two systems of two conservation laws that are defined on complementary, one-dimensional spatial intervals and coupled by an interface as a single port-Hamiltonian system. In case of a fixed interface position, we characterize…
We consider an operator-theoretic approach to linear infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. In particular, we use the theory of system nodes by Staffans to formulate a~suitable concept for port-Hamiltonian systems, which allows a…
We investigate the stability of the wave equation with spatial dependent coefficients on a bounded multidimensional domain. The system is stabilized via a scattering passive feedback law. We formulate the wave equation in a port-Hamiltonian…
An observer-based boundary controller for infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems defined on 1D spatial domains is proposed. The design is based on an early-lumping approach in which a finite-dimensional approximation of the…
We define self-adjoint extensions of the Hodge Laplacian on Lipschitz domains in Riemannian manifolds, corresponding to either the absolute or the relative boundary condition, and examine regularity properties of these operators' domains…
This thesis deals with the formulation and analysis of two systems of conservation laws defined on two complementary intervals and coupled by some moving interface as a single infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian system. This approach may…
We study the Lagrange representation of the wave equation with generalized Laplacian $\operatorname{div} T \nabla$. We allow the coefficients -- the Young modulus $T$ and the density $\rho$ -- to be $\mathrm{L}^{\infty}$ or even nonlocal…
Lately, to provide a solid ground for quantization of the open string theory with a constant B-field, it has been proposed to treat the boundary conditions as hamiltonian constraints. It seems that this proposal is quite general and should…
In this note, we consider port-Hamiltonian structures in numerical optimal control of ordinary differential equations. By introducing a novel class of nonlinear monotone port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems, we show that the primal-dual gradient…
In this paper we study the linear wave equation on an $n$-dimensional spatial domain. We show that there is a boundary triplet associated to the undamped wave equation. This enables us to characterise all boundary conditions for which the…