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We propose a simple method to estimate the parameters involved in discrete dynamical systems from time series. The method is based on the concept of controlling chaos by constant feedback. The major advantages of the method are that it…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Palaniyandi , M. Lakshmanan

We present a new variational framework for dissipative general relativistic fluid dynamics. The model extends the convective variational principle for multi-fluid systems to account for a range of dissipation channels. The key ingredients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-26 N. Andersson , G. L. Comer

We establish three variational principles for the upper metric mean dimension with potential of level sets of continuous maps in terms of the entropy of partitions and Katok's entropy of the underlying system. Our results hold for dynamical…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Lucas Backes , Chunlin Liu , Fagner B. Rodrigues

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

We define variational properties for dynamical systems with subexponential complexity, and study these properties in certain specific examples. By computing the value of slow entropy directly, we show that some subshifts are not…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Minhua Cheng , Carlos Ospina , Kurt Vinhage , Yibo Zhai

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…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-15 François Gay-Balmaz , Hiroaki Yoshimura

We introduce a variational algorithm to estimate the likelihood of a rare event within a nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulation through the evaluation of an optimal control force. Optimization of a control force within a chosen basis…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-14 Avishek Das , David T. Limmer

The climate system is a forced, dissipative, nonlinear, complex and heterogeneous system that is out of thermodynamic equilibrium. The system exhibits natural variability on many scales of motion, in time as well as space, and it is subject…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Michael Ghil , Valerio Lucarini

We consider learning nonholonomic dynamical systems while discovering the constraints, and describe in detail the case of the rolling disk. A nonholonomic system is a system subject to nonholonomic constraints. Unlike holonomic constraints,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Baiyue Wang , Anthony Bloch

We develop categorical foundations of discrete dynamical systems, aimed at understanding how the structure of the system affects its dynamics. The key technical innovation is the notion of a cycle set, which provides a formal language in…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Daniel Carranza , Chris Kapulkin , Nathan Kershaw , Reinhard Laubenbacher , Matthew Wheeler

A thermodynamically consistent particle-based model for fluid dynamics with continuous velocities and a non-ideal equation of state is presented. Excluded volume interactions are modeled by means of biased stochastic multiparticle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Thomas Ihle , Erkan Tuzel , Daniel M. Kroll

The definitions of the temperature in the nonextensive statistical thermodynamics based on Tsallis entropy are analyzed. A definition of pressure is proposed for nonadditive systems by using a nonadditive effective volume. The…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2009-11-10 Qiuping A. Wang , Laurent Nivanen , Alain Le Mehaute , Michel Pezeril

This is a general description of a probabilistic formalism of mechanics, i.e., an extension of the Newtonian mechanics principles to the systems undergoing random motion. From an analysis of the induction procedure from experimental data to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-29 Qiuping A. Wang

Nearly all nontrivial real-world systems are nonlinear dynamical systems. Chaos describes certain nonlinear dynamical systems that have a very sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Chaotic systems are always deterministic and may be…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-11-16 Geoff Boeing

We propose a method for learning dynamical systems from high-dimensional empirical data that combines variational autoencoders and (spatio-)temporal attention within a framework designed to enforce certain scientifically-motivated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Kai Lagemann , Christian Lagemann , Sach Mukherjee

Variational principles for magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) were introduced by previous authors both in Lagrangian and Eulerian form. In this paper we introduce simpler Eulerian variational principles from which all the relevant equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-24 Asher Yahalom

This paper deals with uncertain dynamical systems in which predictions about the future state of a system are assessed by so called pseudomeasures. Two special cases are stochastic dynamical systems, where the pseudomeasure is the…

chao-dyn · Physics 2016-08-31 Andreas Hamm

Let $(X,f_{1,\infty})$ be a nonautonomous dynamical system. In this paper we summarize known definitions of periodic points for general nonautonomous dynamical systems and propose a new, very natural, definition of asymptotic periodicity.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-12-11 Vojtěch Pravec

This paper develops numerical methods for optimal control of mechanical systems in the Lagrangian setting. It extends the theory of discrete mechanics to enable the solutions of optimal control problems through the discretization of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Fernando Jimenez , Marin Kobilarov , David Martin de Diego

We consider the dominant equations for the motion of the non-Newtonian fluid in a domain from an energetic point of view. We apply our energetic variational approaches and the first law of thermodynamics to derive the generalized…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Hajime Koba , Kazuki Sato