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In this paper, we present a control-design method based on the energy-Casimir method for infinite-dimensional, boundary-actuated port-Hamiltonian systems with two-dimensional spatial domain and second-order Hamiltonian. The resulting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-26 Tobias Malzer , Lukas Ecker , Markus Schöberl

Transient gas network simulations can significantly assist in design and operational aspects of gas networks. Models used in these simulations require a detailed framework integrating various models of the network constituents - pipes and…

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In this paper, we study a hydrodynamic phase-field system modeling the deformation of functionalized membranes in incompressible viscous fluids. The governing PDE system consists of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with a convective…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Hao Wu , Yuchen Yang

This paper proposes a physics-guided recurrent neural network model (PGRNN) that combines RNNs and physics-based models to leverage their complementary strengths and improve the modeling of physical processes. Specifically, we show that a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-02-01 Xiaowei Jia , Jared Willard , Anuj Karpatne , Jordan Read , Jacob Zwart , Michael Steinbach , Vipin Kumar

Singular theories, characterised by the presence of degeneracies in their Lagrangian or Hamiltonian descriptions, require the systematic implementation of constraints in order to obtain well-defined dynamics. While the symplectic framework…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Callum Bell , David Sloan

We investigate optimal control of linear port-Hamiltonian systems with control constraints, in which one aims to perform a state transition with minimal energy supply. Decomposing the state space into dissipative and non-dissipative (i.e.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Manuel Schaller , Friedrich Philipp , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann , Bernhard Maschke

This contribution deals with energy-based in-domain control of systems governed by partial differential equations with spatial domain up to dimension two. We exploit a port-Hamiltonian system description based on an underlying jet-bundle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Tobias Malzer , Hubert Rams , Markus Schöberl

In this work, we explore the use of compact latent representations with learned time dynamics ('World Models') to simulate physical systems. Drawing on concepts from control theory, we propose a theoretical framework that explains why…

We present a framework for fine-tuning flow-matching generative models to enforce physical constraints and solve inverse problems in scientific systems. Starting from a model trained on low-fidelity or observational data, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jan Tauberschmidt , Sophie Fellenz , Sebastian J. Vollmer , Andrew B. Duncan

We provide an introduction to infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems. As this research field is quite rich, we restrict ourselves to the class of infinite-dimensional linear port-Hamiltonian systems on a one-dimensional spatial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Birgit Jacob , Hans Zwart

Part I of this paper presented a systematic derivation of the Stokes Dirac structure underlying the port-Hamiltonian model of ideal fluid flow on Riemannian manifolds. Starting from the group of diffeomorphisms as a configuration space for…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-05-05 Ramy Rashad , Federico Califano , Frederic P. Schuller , Stefano Stramigioli

Despite remarkable progress in driving world models, their potential for autonomous systems remains largely untapped: the world models are mostly learned for world simulation and decoupled from trajectory planning. While recent efforts aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Zhida Zhao , Talas Fu , Yifan Wang , Lijun Wang , Huchuan Lu

In this paper we apply the method of Lagrangian descriptors to explore the geometrical structures in phase space that govern the dynamics of dissipative systems. We demonstrate through many classical examples taken from the nonlinear…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-10-04 V. J. García-Garrido , J. García-Luengo

We investigate an energy-based formulation of the two-field poroelasticity model and the related multiple-network model as they appear in geosciences or medical applications. We propose a port-Hamiltonian formulation of the system…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Robert Altmann , Volker Mehrmann , Benjamin Unger

A growing body of work leverages the Hamiltonian formalism as an inductive bias for physically plausible neural network based video generation. The structure of the Hamiltonian ensures conservation of a learned quantity (e.g., energy) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Christine Allen-Blanchette

An in-domain finite dimensional controller for a class of distributed parameter systems on a one-dimensional spatial domain formulated under the port-Hamiltonian framework is presented. Based on [25] where positive feedback and a late…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-06 Ning Liu , Yongxin Wu , Yann Le Gorrec , Laurent Lefevre , Hector Ramirez

In this paper, we propose a probabilistic physics-guided framework, termed Physics-guided Deep Markov Model (PgDMM). The framework targets the inference of the characteristics and latent structure of nonlinear dynamical systems from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Wei Liu , Zhilu Lai , Kiran Bacsa , Eleni Chatzi

Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS) and interconnection and damping assignment passivity-based control (IDA-PBC) have achieved broad success in modelling and stabilisation of physical systems. However, the absence of a dedicated scalar potential…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-14 Jinjun Jia , Yuchen Liao , Kang An , Xun Yan , Tiedong Zhang , Dapeng Jiang

Training robot policies within a learned world model is trending due to the inefficiency of real-world interactions. The established image-based world models and policies have shown prior success, but lack robust geometric information that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Guanxing Lu , Baoxiong Jia , Puhao Li , Yixin Chen , Ziwei Wang , Yansong Tang , Siyuan Huang

We propose the use of latent space generative world models to address the covariate shift problem in autonomous driving. A world model is a neural network capable of predicting an agent's next state given past states and actions. By…