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This paper extends previous work on finitedifference schemes over staggered grids for infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. In the one-dimensional setting, it generalizes the discretization approach originally developed for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Ignacio Diaz Alastuey , Yann Le Gorrec , Yongxin Wu

This paper introduces the basic concepts for physics-compatible discretization techniques. The paper gives a clear distinction between vectors and forms. Based on the difference between forms and pseudo-forms and the $\star$-operator which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Artur Palha , Pedro Pinto Rebelo , René Hiemstra , Jasper Kreeft , Marc Gerritsma

This paper addresses the issue of structure-preserving discretization of open distributed-parameter systems with Hamiltonian dynamics. Employing the formalism of discrete exterior calculus, we introduce a simplicial Dirac structure as a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 Marko Seslija , Arjan van der Schaft , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen

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

The theory of isospectral flows comprises a large class of continuous dynamical systems, particularly integrable systems and Lie--Poisson systems. Their discretization is a classical problem in numerical analysis. Preserving the spectra in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Klas Modin , Milo Viviani

This paper contributes with a new formal method of spatial discretization of a class of nonlinear distributed parameter systems that allow a port-Hamiltonian representation over a one dimensional manifold. A specific finite dimensional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-23 B. C. van Huijgevoort , S. Weiland , H. J. Zwart

Accurate long-term predictions of large-scale flow features on planets are crucial for understanding global atmospheric and oceanic systems, necessitating the development of numerical methods that can preserve essential physical structures…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-10 Arnout Franken , Erwin Luesink , Sagy Ephrati , Bernard Geurts

In this paper, Particle-in-Cell algorithms for the Vlasov-Poisson system are presented based on its Poisson bracket structure. The Poisson equation is solved by finite element methods, in which the appropriate finite element spaces are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-10 Anjiao Gu , Yang He , Yajuan Sun

In this article, we present the structure-preserving discretization of linear one-dimensional port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems of two conservation laws using discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods. We recall the DG discretization procedure which…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Tobias Thoma , Paul Kotyczka

We investigate discretization strategies for a recently introduced class of energy-based models. The model class encompasses classical port-Hamiltonian systems, generalized gradient flows, and certain systems with algebraic constraints. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Robert Altmann , Attila Karsai , Philipp Schulze

In this paper we propose a novel approach to discretize linear port-Hamiltonian systems while preserving the underlying structure. We present a finite element exterior calculus formulation that is able to mimetically represent conservation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Stefano Stramigioli

In this paper, we present an efficient numerical algorithm for solving the time-dependent Cahn--Hilliard--Navier--Stokes equations that model the flow of two phases with different densities. The pressure-correction step in the projection…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-02 Chen Liu , Deep Ray , Christopher Thiele , Lu Lin , Beatrice Riviere

We give a structure preserving spatio-temporal discretization for incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) on the sphere. Discretization in space is based on the theory of geometric quantization, which yields a spatially discretized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Klas Modin , Michael Roop

We present a method for generating higher-order finite volume discretizations for Poisson's equation on Cartesian cut cell grids in two and three dimensions. The discretization is in flux-divergence form, and stencils for the flux are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-18 D. Devendran , D. T. Graves , H. Johansen

We analyze the canonical treatment of classical constrained mechanical systems formulated with a discrete time. We prove that under very general conditions, it is possible to introduce nonsingular canonical transformations that preserve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Cayetano Di Bartolo , Rodolfo Gambini , Rafael Porto , Jorge Pullin

We investigate Hamiltonian fluid reductions of the one-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson equation. Our approach utilizes the hydrodynamic Poisson bracket framework, which allows us to systematically identify fundamental normal variables derived…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Rayan Oufar , Cristel Chandre

A simple Hamiltonian modeling framework for general models in nonlinear optics is given. This framework is specialized to describe the Hamiltonian structure of electromagnetic phenomena in cubicly nonlinear optical media. The model has a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-09-10 William Barham , Yaman Güçlü , Philip J. Morrison , Eric Sonnendrücker

We propose a discretization of vector fields that are Hamiltonian up to multiplication by a positive function on the phase space that may be interpreted as a time reparametrization. We prove that our method is structure preserving in the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-18 Luis C. García-Naranjo , Mats Vermeeren

A simple pseudo-Hamiltonian formulation is proposed for the linear inhomogeneous systems of ODEs. In contrast to the usual Hamiltonian mechanics, our approach is based on the use of non-stationary Poisson brackets, i.e. corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. G. Kupriyanov , S. L. Lyakhovich , A. A. Sharapov

We study constrained Hamiltonian systems by utilizing general forms of time discretization. We show that for explicit discretizations, the requirement of preserving the canonical Poisson bracket under discrete evolution imposes strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Viqar Husain , Oliver Winkler
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