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For a general class of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems we develop a high-order time discretization scheme with certain structure preservation properties. The finite or infinite-dimensional system under consideration possesses a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 Jan Giesselmann , Attila Karsai , Tabea Tscherpel

Port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems offer a highly structured and energy-based modular framework for control systems. Many pH systems exhibit non-polynomial non-linearities. We consider the problem of immersing such systems into a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Mohammad Itani , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser

Passive systems are characterized by their inability to generate energy internally, providing a powerful tool for modeling physical phenomena. Additionally, algebraically encoding passivity in the system description can be advantageous. For…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-05-20 Attila Karsai , Tobias Breiten , Justus Ramme , Philipp Schulze

In the present work we formally extend the theory of port-Hamiltonian systems to include random perturbations. In particular, suitably choosing the space of flow and effort variables we will show how several elements coming from possibly…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Francesco Cordoni , Luca Di Persio , Riccardo Muradore

In this paper we introduce discrete gradient methods to discretize irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems showing that the main qualitative properties of the continuous system are preserved using this kind discretizations methods.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-15 Alexandre Anahory Simoes , David Martín de Diego , Bernhard Maschke

We combine energy-stable and port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems to obtain energy-stable port-Hamiltonian (espH) systems. The idea is to extend the known energy-stable systems with an input-output port, which results in a pH formulation. One…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Patrick Buchfink , Silke Glas , Hans Zwart

The high volatility of renewable energies calls for more energy efficiency. Thus, different physical systems need to be coupled efficiently although they run on various time scales. Here, the port-Hamiltonian (pH) modeling framework comes…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Sarah-Alexa Hauschild , Nicole Marheineke

Port-Hamiltonian systems result from port-based network modeling of physical systems and are an important example of passive state-space systems. In this paper, we develop the framework for model reduction of large-scale…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Serkan Gugercin , Rostyslav V. Polyuga , Christopher Beattie , Arjan van der Schaft

Methods for discretizing port-Hamiltonian systems are of interest both for simulation and control purposes. Despite the large literature on mixed finite elements, no rigorous analysis of the connections between mixed elements and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

The modeling framework of port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems and their use in numerical simulation and control are discussed. The structure is ideal for automated network-based modeling since it is invariant under power-conserving…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Volker Mehrmann , Benjamin Unger

In this paper, we extend the port-Hamiltonian framework by introducing the concept of Stokes-Lagrange structure, which enables the implicit definition of a Hamiltonian over an $N$-dimensional domain and incorporates energy ports into the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Antoine Bendimerad-Hohl , Ghislain Haine , Laurent Lefèvre , Denis Matignon

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 study the structure-preserving space discretization of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems defined with differential constitutive relations. Using the concept of Stokes-Lagrange structure to describe these relations, these are reduced to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Antoine Bendimerad-Hohl , Ghislain Haine , Laurent Lefèvre , Denis Matignon

Electric circuits are usually described by charge- and flux-oriented modified nodal analysis. In this paper, we derive models as port-Hamiltonian systems on several levels: overall systems, multiply coupled systems and systems within…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-28 Michael Günther , Andreas Bartel , Birgit Jacob , Timo Reis

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

Dirac structures are geometric objects that generalize Poisson structures and presymplectic structures on manifolds. They naturally appear in the formulation of constrained mechanical systems and play an essential role in structuring a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-01 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

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…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Jonas Kirchhoff

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

In this letter, we study the energy-optimal control of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems in discrete time. For continuous-time pH systems, energy-optimal control problems are strictly dissipative by design. This property, stating that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Arijit Sarkar , Vaibhav Kumar Singh , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

We consider infinite dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. Based on a power balance relation we introduce the port-Hamiltonian system representation where we pay attention to two different scenarios, namely the non-differential operator…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-08-07 Markus Schöberl , Andreas Siuka