@article{BridgesReich2006, author = {Bridges, Thomas J. and Reich, Sebastian}, title = {Numerical methods for Hamiltonian PDEs}, issn = {0305-4470}, doi = {10.1088/0305-4470/39/19/S02}, year = {2006}, abstract = {The paper provides an introduction and survey of conservative discretization methods for Hamiltonian partial differential equations. The emphasis is on variational, symplectic and multi-symplectic methods. The derivation of methods as well as some of their fundamental geometric properties are discussed. Basic principles are illustrated by means of examples from wave and fluid dynamics}, language = {en} }