  We provide an introduction to infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems.
As this research field is quite rich, we restrict ourselves to the class of
infinite-dimensional linear port-Hamiltonian systems on a one-dimensional
spatial domainand we will focus on topics such as Dirac structures,
well-posedness, stability and stabilizability, Riesz-bases and dissipativity.
We combine the abstract operator theoretic approach with the more physical
approach based on Hamiltonians. This enables us to derive easy verifiable
conditions for well-posedness and stability.
