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We introduce an efficient split finite element (FE) discretization of a y-independent (slice) model of the rotating shallow water equations. The study of this slice model provides insight towards developing schemes for the full 2D case.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Werner Bauer , Jörn Behrens , Colin J. Cotter

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

A broad class of nonlinear acoustic wave models possess a Hamiltonian structure in their dissipation-free limit and a gradient flow structure for their dissipative dynamics. This structure may be exploited to design numerical methods which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-23 William Barham , Philip J. Morrison

A framework for exponential time discretization of the multilayer rotating shallow water equations is developed in combination with a mimetic discretization in space. The method is based on a combination of existing exponential time…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-08-27 Konstantin Pieper , K. Chad Sockwell , Max Gunzburger

This paper focuses on the numerical approximation of the linearized shallow water equations using hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, leveraging the Hamiltonian structure of the evolution system. First, we propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-04 C. Núñez , M. A. Sánchez

In this article we apply a discrete action principle for the Vlasov--Maxwell equations in a structure-preserving particle-field discretization framework. In this framework the finite-dimensional electromagnetic potentials and fields are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-27 Martin Campos Pinto , Katharina Kormann , Eric Sonnendrücker

In this work we propose a new, arbitrary order space-time finite element discretisation for Hamiltonian PDEs in multisymplectic formulation. We show that the new method which is obtained by using both continuous and discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-18 Elena Celledoni , James Jackaman

We propose a new class of finite element approximations to ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in smooth regime. Following variational approximations developed for fluid models in the last decade, our discretizations are built…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

The port-Hamiltonian framework is a structure-preserving modeling approach that preserves key physical properties such as energy conservation and dissipation. When subsystems are modeled as port-Hamiltonian systems (pHS) with linearly…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Matthias Ehrhardt , Michael Günther , Daniel Ševčovič

Respecting the laws of thermodynamics is crucial for ensuring that numerical simulations of dynamical systems deliver physically relevant results. In this paper, we construct a structure-preserving and thermodynamically consistent finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-23 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

A field theory and the associated structure-preserving geometric Particle-In-Cell (PIC) algorithm are developed to study low frequency electrostatic perturbations with fully kinetic ions and adiabatic electrons in magnetized plasmas. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Jianyuan Xiao , Hong Qin

The incompressible Hall-magnetohydrodynamics (Hall--MHD) system presents substantial analytical and computational challenges due to its stiff, highly nonlinear Hall term and the strict requirement that the magnetic field remains solenoidal.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Beniamin Goldys , Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran

This paper reports a development in the proper symplectic decomposition (PSD) for model reduction of forced Hamiltonian systems. As an analogy to the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), PSD is designed to build a symplectic subspace to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-03-14 Liqian Peng , Kamran Mohseni

This paper presents a structure-preserving spatial discretization method for distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian systems. The class of considered systems are hyperbolic systems of two conservation laws in arbitrary spatial dimension and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-11 Flávio Luiz Cardoso-Ribeiro , Denis Matignon , Laurent Lefèvre

Hybrid kinetic-MHD models describe the interaction of an MHD bulk fluid with an ensemble of hot particles, which is described by a kinetic equation. When the Vlasov description is adopted for the energetic particles, different Vlasov-MHD…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-21 Joshua W. Burby , Cesare Tronci

In this contribution, we extend the hybridization framework for the Hodge Laplacian [Awanou et al., Hybridization and postprocessing in finite element exterior calculus, 2023] to port-Hamiltonian systems describing linear wave propagation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-25 Andrea Brugnoli , Ramy Rashad , Yi Zhang , Stefano Stramigioli

We construct a structure-preserving finite element method and time-stepping scheme for compressible barotropic magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) both in the ideal and resistive cases, and in the presence of viscosity. The method is deduced from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-10-04 Evan S. Gawlik , François Gay-Balmaz

Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) couples the Navier--Stokes and Maxwell equations into a nonlinear system of partial differential equations governing stellar interiors, astrophysical jets, fusion plasmas, and space weather. Numerical advances,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 E. A. Huerta

Compatible discretizations, such as finite element exterior calculus, provide a discretization framework that respect the cohomological structure of the de Rham complex, which can be used to systematically construct stable mixed finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

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