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We consider irreversible and coupled reversible-irreversible nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems and the respective sets of thermodynamic equilibria. In particular, we are concerned with optimal state transitions and output stabilization on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann , Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke

In this paper, we treat extended balancing for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems, and we address the problem of structure-preserving model reduction of the subclass of port-Hamiltonian systems. We establish sufficient conditions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-06 Pablo Borja , Jacquelien M. A. Scherpen , Kenji Fujimoto

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

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

The purpose of this work is the design and analysis of a reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator for the so-called pointwise tracking optimal control problem. This linear-quadratic optimal control problem entails the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-08-30 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

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

We develop a physics-informed learning framework for energy-shaping control of port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems from trajectory data. The proposed approach co-learns a pH system model and an optimal energy-balancing passivity-based controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Ankur Kamboj , Biswadip Dey , Vaibhav Srivastava

We employ a port-Hamiltonian approach to model nonlinear rigid multibody systems subject to both position and velocity constraints. Our formulation accommodates Cartesian and redundant coordinates, respectively, and captures kinematic as…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Thomas Berger , René Hochdahl , Timo Reis , Robert Seifried

We establish rigorous \emph{a posteriori} error bounds for a space-time finite element method of arbitrary order discretising linear wave problems in second order formulation. The method combines standard finite elements in space and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Zhaonan Dong , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Lorenzo Mascotto , Zuodong Wang

This work is concerned with the development of a space-time adaptive numerical method, based on a rigorous a posteriori error bound, for a semilinear convection-diffusion problem which may exhibit blow-up in finite time. More specifically,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-12 Andrea Cangiani , Emmanuil H. Georgoulis , Irene Kyza , Stephen Metcalfe

We present an adaptive finite element method for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations based on a standard splitting scheme (the incremental pressure correction scheme). The presented method combines the efficiency and simplicity of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Kristoffer Selim , Anders Logg , Mats G. Larson

We show how a posteriori goal oriented error estimation can be used to efficiently solve the subproblems occurring in a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm. In MPC, only an initial part of a computed solution is implemented as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Lars Grüne , Manuel Schaller , Anton Schiela

A fixed time-step variational integrator cannot preserve momentum, energy, and symplectic form simultaneously for nonintegrable systems. This barrier can be overcome by treating time as a discrete dynamic variable and deriving adaptive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-17 Harsh Sharma , Jeff Borggaard , Mayuresh Patil , Craig Woolsey

In this article we study the possibilities of recovering the structure of port-Hamiltonian systems starting from ``unlabelled'' ordinary differential equations describing mechanical systems. The algorithm we suggest solves the problem in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Vladimir Salnikov , Antoine Falaize , Daria Loziienko

We develop a reduced-order framework for optimizing mixing in two-dimensional incompressible flows. Instead of optimizing the full transport PDE, the method maximizes the length of advected material interfaces, leading to a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Ziqian Li , Enrique Zuazua

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 discretization approximation method commonly used to simulate the dynamics of quantum system coupled to the environment in continuum often suffers from the periodically partial recovery of initial state because of the effect of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 H. T. Cui , Y. A. Yan , M. Qin , X. X. Yi

Accurately learning the temporal behavior of dynamical systems requires models with well-chosen learning biases. Recent innovations embed the Hamiltonian and Lagrangian formalisms into neural networks and demonstrate a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Shaan Desai , Marios Mattheakis , David Sondak , Pavlos Protopapas , Stephen Roberts

Control theory often takes the mathematical model of the to-be-control-led system for granted. In contrast, port-Hamiltonian systems theory bridges the gap between modelling and control for physical systems. It provides a unified framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Arjan van der Schaft

In this paper a new hp-adaptive strategy for elliptic problems based on refinement history is proposed, which chooses h-, p- or hp-refinement on individual elements according to a posteriori error estimate, as well as smoothness estimate of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Hui Liu , Tao Cui , Wei Leng , Linbo Zhang