Authors

A. Brugnoli, V. Mehrmann

Abstract

It is well known that the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian descriptions of field theories are equivalent at the discrete time level when variational integrators are used. Besides the symplectic Hamiltonian structure, many physical systems exhibit a Hamiltonian structure when written in mixed form. In this contribution, the discrete equivalence of Lagrangian, symplectic Hamiltonian and mixed formulations is investigated for linear wave propagation phenomena. Under compatibility conditions between the finite elements, the Lagrangian and mixed formulations are indeed equivalent. For the time discretization the leapfrog scheme and the implicit midpoint rule are considered. In mixed methods applied to wave problems the primal variable (e.g. the displacement in mechanics or the magnetic potential in electromagnetism) is not an unknown of the problem and is reconstructed a posteriori from its time derivative. When this reconstruction is performed via the trapezoidal rule, then these time-discretization methods lead to equivalent formulations.

Keywords

Hamiltonian formulation; Lagrangian formulation; mixed finite elements

Citation

  • Journal: IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 58
  • Issue: 6
  • Pages: 95–100
  • Publisher: Elsevier BV
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.263
  • Note: 8th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control LHMNC 2024- Besançon, France, June 10 – 12, 2024

BibTeX

@article{Brugnoli_2024,
  title={{On the discrete equivalence of Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and mixed finite element formulations for linear wave phenomena}},
  volume={58},
  ISSN={2405-8963},
  DOI={10.1016/j.ifacol.2024.08.263},
  number={6},
  journal={IFAC-PapersOnLine},
  publisher={Elsevier BV},
  author={Brugnoli, A. and Mehrmann, V.},
  year={2024},
  pages={95--100}
}

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