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Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) describes the interaction between electrically conducting fluids and electromagnetic fields. We propose and analyze a symplectic, second-order algorithm for the evolutionary MHD system in Els\"asser variables. We…

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Designing efficient and high-accuracy numerical methods for complex dynamic incompressible magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equations remains a challenging problem in various analysis and design tasks. This is mainly due to the nonlinear coupling…

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The Hamiltonian evolution of an isolated classical system is reversible, yet the second law of thermodynamics states that its entropy can only increase. This has confounded attempts to identify a `Microscopic Dynamical Entropy' (MDE), by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-17 Mingnan Ding , Michael E. Cates

In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

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This paper aims at developing exactly energy-conservative and structure-preserving finite volume schemes for the discretisation of first-order symmetric-hyperbolic and thermodynamically compatible (SHTC) systems of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Alessia Lucca , Michael Dumbser

We develop a method to learn physical systems from data that employs feedforward neural networks and whose predictions comply with the first and second principles of thermodynamics. The method employs a minimum amount of data by enforcing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Quercus Hernández , Alberto Badias , David Gonzalez , Francisco Chinesta , Elias Cueto

The DELiTE (Differential Equations on Linear Triangular Elements) framework was developed for spatial discretisation of partial differential equations on an unstructured triangular grid in axisymmetric geometry. The framework is based on…

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This work presents a novel formulation and numerical strategy for the simulation of geometrically nonlinear structures. First, a non-canonical Hamiltonian (Poisson) formulation is introduced by including the dynamics of the stress tensor.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Andrea Brugnoli , Denis Matignon , Joseph Morlier

In the general case of a many-body Hamiltonian system, described by an autonomous Hamiltonian $H$, and with $K\geq 0$ independent conserved quantities, we derive the microcanonical thermodynamics. By a simple approach, based on the…

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A new formulation of time-dependent Relaxed Magnetohydrodynamics (RxMHD) is derived variationally from Hamilton's Action Principle using microscopic conservation of mass, and macroscopic conservation of total magnetic helicity, cross…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-04 R. L. Dewar , J. W. Burby , Z. Qu , N. Sato , M. J. Hole

We investigate the intermittency of energy dissipation in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence by identifying dissipative structures and measuring their characteristic scales. We find that the probability distribution of energy dissipation…

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In this paper, we present an entropy-stable (ES) discretization using a nodal discontinuous Galerkin (DG) method for the ideal multi-ion magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) equations. We start by performing a continuous entropy analysis of the…

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In this article, we present and analyze a finite element numerical scheme for a three-component macromolecular microsphere composite (MMC) hydrogel model, which takes the form of a ternary Cahn-Hilliard-type equation with…

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We review and compare numerical methods that simultaneously control temperature while preserving the momentum, a family of particle simulation methods commonly used for the modelling of complex fluids and polymers. The class of methods…

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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…

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We present a novel methodology for constructing arbitrarily high-order structure-preserving methods tailored for damped Hamiltonian systems. This method combines the idea of exponential integrator and energy-preserving collocation methods,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-14 Lu Li

A variational formulation for nonequilibrium thermodynamics was recently proposed in \cite{GBYo2017a,GBYo2017b} for both discrete and continuum systems. This formulation extends the Hamilton principle of classical mechanics to include…

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We present a virtual element method (VEM) for the numerical approximation of the electromagnetics subsystem of the resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) model in two spatial dimensions. The major advantages of the virtual element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-27 S. Naranjo Alvarez , V. A. Bokil , V. Gyrya , G. Manzini

We develop structure-preserving time integration schemes for Gaussian wave packet dynamics associated with the magnetic Schr\"odinger equation. The variational Dirac--Frenkel formulation yields a finite-dimensional Hamiltonian system for…

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