Contact geometric description of distributed-parameter port-Hamiltonian systems with respect to Stokes-Dirac structures and its information geometry

Abstract: This paper studies distributed-parameter systems on Riemannian manifolds with respect to Stokes-Dirac structures in a language of contact geometry with fiber bundles. For the class where energy functionals are quadratic, it is shown that distributed-parameter port-Hamiltonian systems with respect to Stokes-Dirac structures on one, two, and three dimensional Riemannian manifolds are written in terms of contact Hamiltonian vector fields on bundles. Their fiber spaces are contact manifolds and base spaces are Riemannian manifolds. In addition, for a class of distributed-parameter port-Hamiltonian systems, information geometry induced from contact manifolds and convex energy functionals is introduced and briefly discussed.