Three-term recurrence iterations for energy-based models

It is well-known that the midpoint rule preserves the dissipation inequality if applied to a certain class of energy-based models. We introduce an appropriate scaling of the state variables such that the symmetric part of the resulting iteration matrix is guaranteed to be positive definite. This allows the application of three-term iteration schemes such as the methods of Widlund and Rapoport. Special emphasis is put on examples where the symmetric part is block diagonal such that the computations decouple. This then leads to efficient dissipation-preserving numerical schemes as illustrated in two numerical examples, namely the biharmonic heat equation and linear poroelasticity.