TY - JOUR A1 - Bridges, Thomas J. A1 - Reich, Sebastian T1 - Numerical methods for Hamiltonian PDEs N2 - 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 Y1 - 2006 UR - http://iopscience.iop.org/1751-8121/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/39/19/S02 SN - 0305-4470 ER -