“…In the lumped-parameter case this Hamiltonian framework has been successfully employed in the consistent (modular) modeling and simulation of complex interconnected lumped-parameter physical systems, including (actuated) multi-body systems with kinematic constraints and electro-mechanical systems [7,18,30,31], and in the design and control of such systems, exploiting the Hamiltonian and passivity structure in a crucial way [19,25,26,29,30,33]. Similar developments can be pursued in the distributed-parameter case; see already [27,32] for some initial ideas in this direction.…”