2023/12/06 by Ari Stern, Stern, Ari, Enrico Zampa +1
Engineering · Mathematics · #65N30 (Primary) 70S05 (Secondary) #Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics #Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods #FOS: Mathematics #Numerical Analysis (math.NA) #Numerical methods for differential equations
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2312.03657
openalex publication_date 2023/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We consider the application of finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) methods to a class of canonical Hamiltonian PDE systems involving differential forms. Solutions to these systems satisfy a local multisymplectic conservation law, which generalizes the more familiar symplectic conservation law for Hamiltonian systems of ODEs, and which is connected with physically-important reciprocity phenomena, such as Lorentz reciprocity in electromagnetics. We characterize hybrid FEEC methods whose numerical traces satisfy a version of the multisymplectic conservation law, and we apply this characterization to several specific classes of FEEC methods, including conforming Arnold-Falk-Winther-type methods and various hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods. Interestingly, the HDG-type and other nonconforming methods are shown, in general, to be multisymplectic in a stronger sense than the conforming FEEC methods. This substantially generalizes previous work of McLachlan and Stern [Found. Comput. Math., 20 (2020), pp. 35-69] on the more restricted class of canonical Hamiltonian PDEs in the de Donder-Weyl "grad-div" form.