High-order Structure-preserving Methods for Damped Hamiltonian System
Lu Li
TL;DR
The paper addresses the challenge of numerically integrating damped Hamiltonian systems while preserving the intrinsic energy-dissipation structure. It blends exponential integrators with energy-preserving collocation to produce high-order, symmetric schemes that preserve the energy-dissipation rate under appropriate invariants, and extends the framework to semi-discrete Hamiltonian PDEs such as the damped Burger's and KdV equations. Key contributions include the construction of second, fourth, sixth, and eighth-order exponential energy-dissipation-preserving collocation (EEPC) methods, proofs of dissipation-preservation under specific conditions (e.g., $H(e^{Y_t}x_t)=e^{\phi_t}H(x_t)$), and extensive numerical validation showing accurate dissipation rates and higher-order accuracy. The methods demonstrate potential for efficient, stable simulation of large-scale damped Hamiltonian systems where preserving dissipative structure is crucial, with open questions around general damping forms and time-dependent skew-symmetric structures.
Abstract
We present a novel methodology for constructing arbitrarily high-order structure-preserving methods tailored for damped Hamiltonian systems. This method combines the idea of exponential integrator and energy-preserving collocation methods, effectively preserving the energy dissipation ratio introduced by the damping terms. We demonstrate the conservative properties of these methods and confirm their order of accuracy through numerical experiments involving the damped Burger's equation and Korteweg-de-Vries equation.
