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We apply the Dirac procedure for constrained systems to the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner formalism linearized around the Friedmann-Lemaitre universe. We explain and employ some basic concepts such as Dirac observables, Dirac brackets, gauge-fixing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-30 Przemysław Małkiewicz

We propose a new numerical scheme of evolution for the Einstein equations using the discrete variational derivative method (DVDM). We derive the discrete evolution equation of the constraint using this scheme and show the constraint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-24 Takuya Tsuchiya , Gen Yoneda

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

In this paper we discuss energy conservation issues related to the numerical solution of the nonlinear wave equation. As is well known, this problem can be cast as a Hamiltonian system that may be autonomous or not, depending on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-27 Luigi Brugnano , Gianluca Frasca Caccia , Felice Iavernaro

We present the mixed Galerkin discretization of distributed parameter port-Hamiltonian systems. On the prototypical example of hyperbolic systems of two conservation laws in arbitrary spatial dimension, we derive the main contributions: (i)…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Paul Kotyczka , Bernhard Maschke , Laurent Lefèvre

We analyze the wave equation in mixed form, with periodic and/or Dirichlet homogeneous boundary conditions, and nonconstant coefficients that depend on the spatial variable. For the discretization, the weak form of the second equation is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-01 Andrea Bressan , Annalisa Buffa , Alen Kushova , Rafael Vázquez

A conservative discretization of incompressible Navier-Stokes equations is developed based on discrete exterior calculus (DEC). A distinguishing feature of our method is the use of an algebraic discretization of the interior product…

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An abstract framework is developed that enables the analysis of algebraically stabilized discretizations in a unified way. This framework is applied to a discretization of this kind for convection-diffusion-reaction equations. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Volker John , Petr Knobloch

In this paper we study the stability of explicit finite difference discretizations of linear advection-diffusion equations (ADE) with arbitrary order of accuracy in the context of method of lines. The analysis first focuses on the stability…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-17 Xianyi Zeng , Md Mahmudul Hasan

We study the recently-proposed hyperbolic approximation of the Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV). We show that this approximation, which we call KdVH, possesses a rich variety of solutions, including solitary wave solutions that approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-05 Abhijit Biswas , David I. Ketcheson , Hendrik Ranocha , Jochen Schütz

Port-based network modeling of multi-physics problems leads naturally to a formulation as port-Hamiltonian differential-algebraic system. In this way, the physical properties are directly encoded in the structure of the model. Since the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Sarah-Alexa Hauschild , Nicole Marheineke , Volker Mehrmann

This paper discusses the computation of derivatives for optimization problems governed by linear hyperbolic systems of partial differential equations (PDEs) that are discretized by the discontinuous Galerkin (dG) method. An efficient and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-11-28 Lucas C. Wilcox , Georg Stadler , Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas

We establish a well-posedness and error-estimation framework that solves Hamilton-Jacobi equations by minimizing the least-squares residual of monotone finite-difference discretizations. This approach also applies naturally to second-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Olivier Bokanowski , Carlos Esteve-Yagüe , Richard Tsai

We present a new multi-symplectic formulation of constrained Hamiltonian partial differential equations, and we study the associated local conservation laws. A multi-symplectic discretisation based on this new formulation is exemplified by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-06 David Cohen , Olivier Verdier

We develop a rigorous theory for a structure-preserving discretisation of the incompressible Euler and Navier--Stokes equations, based on discrete exterior calculus on prismatic Delaunay--Voronoi meshes over closed Riemannian manifolds. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-22 Peter Korn

We comment on the discretization of the Dirac equation using finite element spaces of differential forms. In order to treat perturbations by low order terms, such as those arizing from electromagnetic fields, we develop some abstract…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Snorre H. Christiansen

We propose a finite element discretisation approach for the incompressible Euler equations which mimics their geometric structure and their variational derivation. In particular, we derive a finite element method that arises from a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-17 Andrea Natale , Colin J. Cotter

This paper presents a geometric variational discretization of compressible fluid dynamics. The numerical scheme is obtained by discretizing, in a structure preserving way, the Lie group formulation of fluid dynamics on diffeomorphism groups…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Werner Bauer , François Gay-Balmaz

We introduce a mimetic dual-field discretization which conserves mass, kinetic energy and helicity for three-dimensional incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The discretization makes use of a conservative dual-field mixed weak…

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