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The non-extensive statistical mechanics has been applied to describe a variety of complex systems with inherent correlations and feedback loops. Here we present a dynamical model based on previously proposed static model exhibiting in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-20 A. Kononovicius , J. Ruseckas

A Feynman-Jensen version of the thermal variational principle is applied to hot gauge fields, Abelian as well as non-Abelian: scalar electrodynamics (without scalar self-coupling) and the gluon plasma. The perturbatively known self-energies…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Schröder , H. Schulz

Recently we proposed a new constant-pressure molecular dynamics method for finite systems. In this paper, we discuss the current understanding of this method and its technique details. We also review the recent theoretical advances of…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-02-04 D. Y. Sun , X. G. Gong

This article develops variational integrators for a class of underactuated mechanical systems using the theory of discrete mechanics. Further, a discrete optimal control problem is formulated for the considered class of systems and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Siddharth H. Nair , Ravi N. Banavar

This paper presents the variational discretization of the compressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system, in which the viscosity and the heat conduction terms are handled within the variational approach to nonequilibrium thermodynamics as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-09 Benjamin Couéraud , François Gay-Balmaz

We introduce action-driven flows for causal variational principles, being a class of non-convex variational problems emanating from applications in fundamental physics. In the compact setting, H\"older continuous curves of measures are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Felix Finster , Franz Gmeineder

Shape-dependent thermodynamics and non-local hydrodynamics are argued to occur in dissipative steady states of driven diffusive systems. These predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations. Unlike power-law correlations, these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Francis J. Alexander , Gregory L. Eyink

We focus on variational inference in dynamical systems where the discrete time transition function (or evolution rule) is modelled by a Gaussian process. The dominant approach so far has been to use a factorised posterior distribution,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-17 Alessandro Davide Ialongo , Mark van der Wilk , James Hensman , Carl Edward Rasmussen

Applications of variational methods are typically restricted to conservative systems. Some extensions to dissipative systems have been reported too but require ad hoc techniques such as the artificial doubling of the dynamical variables.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 I. Y. Dodin , A. I. Zhmoginov , D. E. Ruiz

Variational principles play a fundamental role in deriving evolution equations of physics. They are working well in case of nondissipative evolution but for dissipative systems they are not unique, not predictive and not constructive. With…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-02 Péter Ván , Róbert Kovács

The problem of determining the mathematical model of the dynamics of multi-dimensional control systems in the presence of noise under the condition that the correlation functions cannot be found. Known statistical dynamics of linear systems…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2013-01-29 V. N. Tibabishev

The recently developed method (Paper 1) enabling one to investigate the evolution of dynamical systems with an accuracy not dependent on time is developed further. The classes of dynamical systems which can be studied by that method are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-05 V. G. Gurzadyan , A. A. Kocharyan

Concepts of everyday use like energy, heat, and temperature have acquired a precise meaning after the development of thermodynamics. Thermodynamics provides the basis for understanding how heat and work are related and with the general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Reguera , J. M. Rubi , J. M. G. Vilar

Due to the processes that occur during the functioning of modern electromechanical systems, these systems can be considered complex nonlinear dynamic systems from the point of view of the theory of dynamic systems. The movement of such…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-10 Roman Voliansky

Functional dynamics, introduced in a previous paper, is analyzed, focusing on the formation of a hierarchical rule to determine the dynamics of the functional value. To study the periodic (or non-fixed) solution, the functional dynamics is…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Kataoka , K. Kaneko

We develop a method for systematically constructing Lagrangian functions for dissipative mechanical, electrical and, mechatronic systems. We derive the equations of motion for some typical mechatronic systems using deterministic principles…

Classical Physics · Physics 2012-11-20 A. Allison , C. E. M. Pearce , D. Abbott

We study a Weiner process that is conditioned to pass through a finite set of points and consider the dynamics generated by iterating a sample path from this process. Using topological techniques we are able to characterize the global…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Konstantin Mischaikow , Cameron Thieme

The paper is focused on the discussion of the phenomenon of transitional chaos in dynamic autonomous and non-autonomous systems. This phenomenon involves the disappearance of chaotic oscillations in specific time periods and the system…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-02-10 Marek Berezowski

A system with anholonomic constraints where the trajectories of physical degrees of freedom are autoparallels on a manifold equipped with a general Cartan connection is discussed. A variational principle for the autoparallel trajectories is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei V. Shabanov

We propose the difference discrete variational principle in discrete mechanics and symplectic algorithm with variable step-length of time in finite duration based upon a noncommutative differential calculus established in this paper. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xu-Dong Luo , Han-Ying Guo , Yu-Qi Li , Ke Wu