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There are numerous ways to control objects in the Stokes regime, with microscale examples ranging from the use of optical tweezers to the application of external magnetic fields. In contrast, there are relatively few explorations of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-19 Benjamin J. Walker , Kenta Ishimoto , Eamonn A. Gaffney , Clément Moreau

Although diffusion models have successfully extended to function-valued data, stochastic interpolants -- which offer a flexible way to bridge arbitrary distributions -- remain limited to finite-dimensional settings. This work bridges this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 James Boran Yu , RuiKang OuYang , Julien Horwood , José Miguel Hernández-Lobato

Dirac structures are geometric objects that generalize both Poisson structures and presymplectic structures on manifolds. They naturally appear in the formulation of constrained mechanical systems. In this paper, we show that the evolution…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

Stochastically evolving geometric systems are studied in shape analysis and computational anatomy for modelling random evolutions of human organ shapes. The notion of geodesic paths between shapes is central to shape analysis and has a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Alexis Arnaudon , Frank van der Meulen , Moritz Schauer , Stefan Sommer

The goal of this paper is to propose and discuss a practical way to implement the Dirac algorithm for constrained field models defined on spatial regions with boundaries. Our method is inspired in the geometric viewpoint developed by Gotay,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-01 J. Fernando Barbero G. , Bogar Díaz , Juan Margalef-Bentabol , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

This work extends previous 1D irreversible port-Hamiltonian system (IPHS) formulations to boundary-controlled ND distributed parameter systems describing conduction-diffusion fluid phenomena. Within a unified and thermodynamically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Luis Mora , Yann Le Gorrec , Hector Ramirez , Denis Matignon

We study Dirichlet boundary control of Stokes flows in 2D polygonal domains. We consider cost functionals with two different boundary control regularization terms: the $L^2$ norm and an energy space seminorm. We prove well-posedness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-18 W. Gong , M. Mateos , J. Singler , Y. Zhang

Many time-dependent linear partial differential equations of mathematical physics and continuum mechanics can be phrased in the form of an abstract evolutionary system defined on a Hilbert space. In this paper we discuss a general framework…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Stefan Neukamm , Mario Varga , Marcus Waurick

We consider the singular optimal control problem of minimizing the energy supply of linear dissipative port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems subject to control and terminal state constraints. To this end, after reducing the problem to an ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

In this paper we present a finite element analysis for a Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the Stokes equation. The Dirichlet control is considered in a convex closed subset of the energy space $\mathbf{H}^1(\Omega).$ Most of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Thirupathi Gudi , Ramesh Ch. Sau

Stochastic Spatio-Temporal processes are prevalent across domains ranging from modeling of plasma to the turbulence in fluids to the wave function of quantum systems. This letter studies a measure-theoretic description of such systems by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-25 George I. Boutselis , Ethan N. Evans , Marcus A. Pereira , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We design observer-based controllers to stabilise abstract linear boundary control systems on Hilbert spaces. Our main results introduce conditions for exponential, strong, and polynomial stability, and establish external well-posedness of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Mohamed Fkirine , Lassi Paunonen

With this contribution, we give a complete and comprehensive framework for modeling the dynamics of complex mechanical structures as port-Hamiltonian systems. This is motivated by research on the potential of lightweight construction using…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Alexander Warsewa , Michael Böhm , Oliver Sawodny , Cristina Tarín

In this paper, we consider infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems with in-domain actuation by means of an approach based on Stokes-Dirac structures as well as in a framework that exploits an underlying jet-bundle structure. In both…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Tobias Malzer , Jesús Toledo , Yann Le Gorrec , Markus Schöberl

After recalling standard nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and their algebraic constraint equations, called here Dirac algebraic constraints, an extended class of port-Hamiltonian systems is introduced. This is based on replacing the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Arjan van der Schaft , Bernhard Maschke

Discrete gradient methods are a powerful tool for the time discretization of dynamical systems, since they are structure-preserving regardless of the form of the total energy. In this work, we discuss the application of discrete gradient…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Philipp L. Kinon , Riccardo Morandin , Philipp Schulze

Patterns arise spontaneously in a range of systems spanning the sciences, and their study typically focuses on mechanisms to understand their evolution in space-time. Increasingly, there has been a transition towards controlling these…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-10-17 Vishaal Krishnan , Sumit Sinha , L. Mahadevan

A well-specified parametrization for single-input/single-output (SISO) linear port-Hamiltonian systems amenable to structure-preserving supervised learning is provided. The construction is based on controllable and observable normal form…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Juan-Pablo Ortega , Daiying Yin

We present the observation that the process of stochastic model predictive control can be formulated in the framework of iterated function systems. The latter has a rich ergodic theory that can be applied to study the system's long-run…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-14 Vyacheslav Kungurtsev , Jakub Marecek , Robert Shorten

We give insight in the structure of port-Hamiltonian systems as control systems in between two closed Hamiltonian systems. Using the language of category theory, we identify systems with their behavioural representation and view a…

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