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Main Authors: Lombardi, Damiano, Pagliantini, Cecilia
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06310
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author Lombardi, Damiano
Pagliantini, Cecilia
author_facet Lombardi, Damiano
Pagliantini, Cecilia
contents Nonconservative evolution problems describe irreversible processes and dissipative effects in a broad variety of phenomena. Such problems are often characterised by a conservative part, which can be modelled as a Hamiltonian term, and a nonconservative part, in the form of gradient flow dissipation. Traditional numerical approximations of this class of problem typically fail to retain the separation into conservative and nonconservative parts hence leading to unphysical solutions. In this work we propose a mixed variational method that gives a semi-discrete problem with the same geometric structure as the infinite-dimensional problem. As a consequence the conservation laws and the dissipative terms are retained. A priori convergence estimates on the solution are established. Numerical tests of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations on the torus and on the sphere are presented to corroborate the theoretical findings.
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spellingShingle Conformal variational discretisation of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems with gradient flow dissipation
Lombardi, Damiano
Pagliantini, Cecilia
Numerical Analysis
Nonconservative evolution problems describe irreversible processes and dissipative effects in a broad variety of phenomena. Such problems are often characterised by a conservative part, which can be modelled as a Hamiltonian term, and a nonconservative part, in the form of gradient flow dissipation. Traditional numerical approximations of this class of problem typically fail to retain the separation into conservative and nonconservative parts hence leading to unphysical solutions. In this work we propose a mixed variational method that gives a semi-discrete problem with the same geometric structure as the infinite-dimensional problem. As a consequence the conservation laws and the dissipative terms are retained. A priori convergence estimates on the solution are established. Numerical tests of the Korteweg-de Vries equation and of the two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations on the torus and on the sphere are presented to corroborate the theoretical findings.
title Conformal variational discretisation of infinite dimensional Hamiltonian systems with gradient flow dissipation
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06310