Port-Hamiltonian modeling, discretization and feedback control of a circular water tank

Abstract

© 2019 IEEE.This work presents the development of the nonlinear 2D Shallow Water Equations (SWE) in polar coordinates as a boundary port controlled Hamiltonian system. A geometric reduction by symmetry is obtained, simplifying the system to one-dimension. The recently developed Partitioned Finite Element Method is applied to semi-discretize the equations, preserving the boundary power-product of both the original 2D and the reduced 1D system. The main advantage of this power-preserving semi-discretization method is that it can be applied using well-established finite element software. In this work, we use FEniCS to solve the variational formulation, including the nonlinearity provided by the non-quadratic Hamiltonian of the SWE. A passive output-feedback controller using damping injection is used to dissipate the water waves.