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This article considers a model problem of elastoplasticity with linearly kinematic hardening and presents hp-finite element discretizations of two equivalent weak formulations each having their respective advantages. A mixed variational…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Patrick Bammer , Lothar Banz , Miriam Schönauer , Andreas Schröder

This work introduces a new framework integrating port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) and neural network architectures. This framework bridges the gap between deterministic and stochastic modeling of complex dynamical systems. We introduce new…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-09 Luca Di Persio , Matthias Ehrhardt , Youness Outaleb , Sofia Rizzotto

A new method is proposed for integrating the equations of motion of an elastic filament. In the standard finite-difference and finite-element formulations the continuum equations of motion are discretized in space and time, but it is then…

Computational Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Anthony JC Ladd , Gaurav Misra

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian formulation of vehicle-manipulator systems (VMS), a broad class of robotic systems including aerial manipulators, underwater manipulators, space robots, and omnidirectional mobile manipulators. Unlike…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Ramy Rashad

Port-Hamiltonian system theory is a well-known framework for the control of complex physical systems. The majority of port-Hamiltonian control design methods base on an explicit input-state-output port-Hamiltonian model for the system under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-09 Martin Pfeifer , Sven Caspart , Silja Pfeiffer , Charles Muller , Stefan Krebs , Soeren Hohmann

This paper presents a structure-preserving model reduction approach applicable to large-scale, nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems. Structure preservation in the reduction step ensures the retention of port-Hamiltonian structure which, in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Saifon Chaturantabut , Chris Beattie , Serkan Gugercin

Projection-based model order reduction of dynamical systems usually introduces an error between the high-fidelity model and its counterpart of lower dimension. This unknown error can be bounded by residual-based methods, which are typically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Johannes Rettberg , Dominik Wittwar , Patrick Buchfink , Robin Herkert , Jörg Fehr , Bernard Haasdonk

A generic data-assisted control architecture within the port-Hamiltonian framework is proposed, introducing a physically meaningful observable that links conservative dynamics to all actuation, dissipation, and disturbance channels. A…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Mostafa Eslami , Maryam Babazadeh

Port-Hamiltonian systems (pHS) allow for a structure-preserving modeling of dynamical systems. Coupling pHS via linear relations between input and output defines an overall pHS, which is structure preserving. However, in multiphysics…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-28 Peter Zaspel , Michael Günther

In this contribution we present how to obtain explicit state space models in port-Hamiltonian form when a mixed finite element method is applied to a linear mechanical system with non-uniform boundary conditions. The key is to express the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

A discrete-module-finite element (DMFE) based hydroelasticity method has been proposed and well developed. Firstly, a freely floating flexible structure is discretized into several macro-submodules in two horizontal directions to perform a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-18 Yongqiang Chen , Xiantao Zhang , Lei Liu , Xinliang Tian , Xin Li , Zhengshun Cheng

We investigate an energy-based formulation of the two-field poroelasticity model and the related multiple-network model as they appear in geosciences or medical applications. We propose a port-Hamiltonian formulation of the system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Robert Altmann , Volker Mehrmann , Benjamin Unger

A prevalent theme throughout science and engineering is the ongoing paradigm shift away from isolated systems towards open and interconnected systems. Port-Hamiltonian theory developed as a synthesis of geometric mechanics and network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Markus Lohmayer , Sigrid Leyendecker

We develop a physics-informed learning framework for energy-shaping control of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems from trajectory data. The proposed approach co-learns a pH system model and an optimal energy-balancing passivity-based controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ankur Kamboj , Biswadip Dey , Vaibhav Srivastava

We extend the modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems to include under- and over-determined systems and arbitrary differentiable Hamiltonian functions. This structure is associated with a Dirac structure that encloses its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Volker Mehrmann , Riccardo Morandin

This paper provides a first contribution to port-Hamiltonian modeling of district heating networks. By introducing a model hierarchy of flow equations on the network, this work aims at a thermodynamically consistent port-Hamiltonian…

We construct a dynamical decoupling protocol for accurately generating local and global symmetries in general many-body systems. Multiple commuting and non-commuting symmetries can be created by means of a self-similar-in-time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-29 Kartiek Agarwal , Ivar Martin

In this master's thesis, we rigorously develop two frameworks of relational composition of systems using tools from category theory. The first framework addresses port-Hamiltonian systems, which are dynamical systems whose dynamics are…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Owen Lynch

Many experimental techniques aim at determining the Hamiltonian of a given system. The Hamiltonian describes the system's evolution in the absence of dissipation, and is often central to control or interpret an experiment. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Vincent Dumont , Markus Bestler , Letizia Catalini , Gabriel Margiani , Oded Zilberberg , Alexander Eichler

In this paper we present a method to robustify energy-shaping controllers for port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems by adding an integral action that rejects unknown additive disturbances. The proposed controller preserves the pH structure and, by…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-18 Joel Ferguson , Alejandro Donaire , Romeo Ortega , Richard H. Middleton