Symplectic integration of PDEs using Clebsch variables

DOI10.3934/JCD.2019005MaRDI QIDQ2323356zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Christian Offen, Benjamin K. Tapley, Robert I. McLachlan

Publication date 30 August 2019

Published in Journal of Computational Dynamics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.01627

zbMATH Keywords

Burgers equationEuler's equationLie-Poisson systemsymplectic integration

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Euler equations (35Q31) Relations of infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian and Lagrangian dynamical systems with topology, geometry and differential geometry (37K25) Discretization methods and integrators (symplectic, variational, geometric, etc.) for dynamical systems (37M15) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Finite difference methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N06) Numerical methods for Hamiltonian systems including symplectic integrators (65P10)

Abstract: Many PDEs (Burgers' equation, KdV, Camassa-Holm, Euler's fluid equations,...) can be formulated as infinite-dimensional Lie-Poisson systems. These are Hamiltonian systems on manifolds equipped with Poisson brackets. The Poisson structure is connected to conservation properties and other geometric features of solutions to the PDE and, therefore, of great interest for numerical integration. For the example of Burgers' equations and related PDEs we use Clebsch variables to lift the original system to a collective Hamiltonian system on a symplectic manifold whose structure is related to the original Lie-Poisson structure. On the collective Hamiltonian system a symplectic integrator can be applied. Our numerical examples show excellent conservation properties and indicate that the disadvantage of an increased phase-space dimension can be outweighed by the advantage of symplectic integration.

Review text

This paper is focused on infinite-dimensional Lie-Poisson systems. Clebsch variables are used to lift the original system to a collective Hamiltonian system on a symplectic manifold whose symplectic structure is related to the original Lie-Poisson structure. The main example is a Burgers equation, together with some related PDEs. The authors apply symplectic integration on the resulting collective Hamiltonian systems. The numerical experiments show excellent conservation properties and indicate that the disadvantage of an increased phase-space dimension can be balanced by a proper use of symplectic integration.

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