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Stochastic contact Hamiltonian systems are a class of important mathematical models, which can describe the dissipative properties with odd dimensions in the stochastic environment. In this article, we investigate the numerical dynamics of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Qingyi Zhan , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Lijin Wang

Starting from a contact Hamiltonian description of Li\'enard systems, we introduce a new family of explicit geometric integrators for these nonlinear dynamical systems. Focusing on the paradigmatic example of the van der Pol oscillator, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Federico Zadra , Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri

In this work we introduce contact Hamiltonian mechanics, an extension of symplectic Hamiltonian mechanics, and show that it is a natural candidate for a geometric description of non-dissipative and dissipative systems. For this purpose we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Alessandro Bravetti , Hans Cruz , Diego Tapias

Systems with dissipation can be described using contact geometry. We introduce the concepts of symmetries and dissipation laws for contact Hamiltonian systems and study the relation between them. This is an ongoing collaboration with Xavier…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Jordi Gaset

We present geometric numerical integrators for contact flows that stem from a discretization of Herglotz' variational principle. First we show that the resulting discrete map is a contact transformation and that any contact map can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-04 Mats Vermeeren , Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri

In this work we construct a stochastic contact variational integrator and its discrete version via stochastic Herglotz variational principle for stochastic contact Hamiltonian systems. A general structure-preserving stochastic contact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-26 Qingyi Zhan , Jinqiao Duan , Xiaofan Li , Yuhong Li

We develop a method of constructing structure-preserving integrators for Hamiltonian systems in Jacobi manifolds. Hamiltonian mechanics, rooted in symplectic and Poisson geometry, has long provided a foundation for modeling conservative…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-10 Adérito Araújo , Gonçalo Inocêncio Oliveira , João Nuno Mestre

In the last two decades, significant effort has been put in understanding and designing so-called structure-preserving numerical methods for the simulation of mechanical systems. Geometric integrators attempt to preserve the geometry…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-26 David Martín de Diego , Rodrigo T. Sato Martín de Almagro

We propose a systematic framework for constructing geometric integrators for Hamiltonian systems on Jacobi manifolds. By combining Poissonization of Jacobi structures with homogeneous symplectic bi-realizations, Jacobi dynamics are lifted…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-29 Adérito Araújo , Gonçalo Inocêncio Oliveira , João Nuno Mestre

We develop a unified geometric framework for mechanical systems that combine conservative and dissipative dynamics by formulating them on contact manifolds. Within this setting, we identify the Reeb vector field as the intrinsic generator…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Vinesh Vijayan , Pasupuleti Thejasree , P Satish Kumar , K Suganya

In this work we devise a stochastic version of contact Hamiltonian systems, and show that the phase flows of these systems preserve contact structures. Moreover, we provide a sufficient condition under which these stochastic contact…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Pingyuan Wei , Zibo Wang

Several dynamical systems of interest in celestial mechanics can be written in the form of a Newton equation with time-dependent damping, linear in the velocities. For instance, the modified Kepler problem, the spin-orbit model and the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Alessandro Bravetti , Marcello Seri , Mats Vermeeren , Federico Zadra

We study a family of nonholonomic mechanical systems. These systems consist of harmonic oscillators coupled through nonholonomic constraints. In particular, the family includes the so called contact oscillator, which has been used as a test…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-02-25 Klas Modin , Olivier Verdier

As a generalization and extension of our previous paper [Escobar-Ruiz and Azuaje, J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 57, 105202 (2024)], in this work, the notions of particular integral and particular integrability in classical mechanics are extended…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 R. Azuaje , A. M. Escobar-Ruiz

We provide new insights into the contact Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formulations of dissipative mechanical systems. In particular, we state a new form of the contact dynamical equations, and we review two recently presented Lagrangian…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-06-16 Jordi Gaset , Xavier Gràcia , Miguel C. Muñoz-Lecanda , Xavier Rivas , Narciso Román-Roy

Variational integrators are derived for structure-preserving simulation of stochastic Hamiltonian systems with a certain type of multiplicative noise arising in geometric mechanics. The derivation is based on a stochastic discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-31 Darryl D. Holm , Tomasz M. Tyranowski

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

Discrete control systems, as considered here, refer to the control theory of discrete-time Lagrangian or Hamiltonian systems. These discrete-time models are based on a discrete variational principle, and are part of the broader field of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-29 Taeyoung Lee , Melvin Leok , N. Harris McClamroch

In this paper, we apply the geometric Hamilton--Jacobi theory to obtain solutions of Hamiltonian systems in Classical Mechanics, that are either compatible with a cosymplectic or a contact structure. As it is well known, the first structure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-07-06 M. de León , C. Sardón

Modified Hamiltonians are used in the field of geometric numerical integration to show that symplectic schemes for Hamiltonian systems are accurate over long times. For nonlinear systems the series defining the modified Hamiltonian usually…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Shami A Alsallami , Jitse Niesen , Frank W Nijhoff
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