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Recently, we have demonstrated that there exists a possible relationship between q-deformed algebras in two different contexts of Statistical Mechanics, namely, the Tsallis' framework and the Kaniadakis' scenario, with a local form of…

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The paper proposes an approach for the efficient model order reduction of dynamic contact problems in linear elasticity. Instead of the augmented Lagrangian method that is widely used for mechanical contact problems, we prefer here the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Diana Manvelyan , Bernd Simeon , Utz Wever

Complex systems are composed of a large number of simple components connected to each other in the form of a network. It is shown that, for some network configurations, the equivalent dynamic behavior of the system is governed by an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-05 Mihir Sen , John P. Hollkamp , Fabio Semperlotti , Bill Goodwine

Phase fitting has been extensively used during the last years to improve the behaviour of numerical integrators on oscillatory problems. In this work, the benefits of the phase fitting technique are embedded in discrete Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. T. Kosmas , D. S. Vlachos

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

Force modulation of robotic manipulators has been extensively studied for several decades but is not yet commonly used in safety-critical applications due to a lack of accurate interaction contact modeling and weak performance guarantees -…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Lasitha Wijayarathne , Qie Sima , Ziyi Zhou , Ye Zhao , Frank L. Hammond

We present high-order variational Lagrangian finite element methods for compressible fluids using a discrete energetic variational approach. Our spatial discretization is mass/momentum/energy conserving and entropy stable. Fully implicit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-16 Guosheng Fu , Chun Liu

The incorporation of appropriate inductive bias plays a critical role in learning dynamics from data. A growing body of work has been exploring ways to enforce energy conservation in the learned dynamics by encoding Lagrangian or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-15 Yaofeng Desmond Zhong , Biswadip Dey , Amit Chakraborty

The principle of least action is one of the most fundamental physical principle. It says that among all possible motions connecting two points in a phase space, the system will exhibit those motions which extremise an action functional.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Christian Offen

An error analysis of trigonometric integrators (or exponential integrators) applied to spatial semi-discretizations of semilinear wave equations with periodic boundary conditions in one space dimension is given. In particular, optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-03 Ludwig Gauckler

We develop an explicit, second-order, variational time integrator for full body dynamics that preserves the momenta of the continuous dynamics, such as linear and angular momenta, and exhibits near-conservation of total energy over…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Caroline Baker , Marcial Gonzalez

In this note we describe how some objects from generalized geometry appear in the qualitative analysis and numerical simulation of mechanical systems. In particular we discuss double vector bundles and Dirac structures. It turns out that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-19 Vladimir Salnikov , Aziz Hamdouni

In this paper, we carry out the error analysis for the structure-preserving discretization of the incompressible MHD system. This system, as a coupled system of Navier-Stokes equations and Maxwell's equations, is nonlinear. We use its…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-11 Yicong Ma , Jinchao Xu , Guodong Zhang

In this paper, we derive a variational integrator for certain highly oscillatory problems in mechanics. To do this, we take a new approach to the splitting of fast and slow potential forces: rather than splitting these forces at the level…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-08-03 Ari Stern , Eitan Grinspun

This contribution deals with identification of fractional-order dynamical systems. We consider systems whose mathematical description is a three-member differential equation in which the orders of derivatives can be real numbers. We give a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Dorcak , V. Lesko , I. Kostial

Discrete variational methods show excellent performance in numerical simulations of mechanical systems. In this paper, we adapt discrete variational integrators for the case of mechanical systems with double-bracket dissipation. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Anthony Bloch , Sebastián J. Ferraro , David Martín de Diego , Shreyas Bharadwaj

Through duality it is possible to transform left fractional operators into right fractional operators and vice versa. In contrast to existing literature, we establish integration by parts formulas that exclusively involve either left or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Delfim F. M. Torres

We propose novel quadratic performance tests for linear discrete-time impulsive systems based on viewing these systems as feedback interconnections of some non-impulsive linear system with an impulsive operator. In order to systematically…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Tobias Holicki , Carsten W. Scherer

This paper investigates a class of non-autonomous highly oscillatory ordinary differential equations characterized by a linear component inversely proportional to a small parameter $\varepsilon$, with purely imaginary eigenvalues, and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Zhihao Qi , Weibing Deng , Fuhai Zhu

When the order of an integrator is a complex number, the integrator is called a complex fractional order integrator (CFOI). The impulse response invariant discretization (IRID) method is proposed to approximately discretize the CFOI. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Zhenlong Wu , YangQuan Chen , Donghai Li