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The present manuscript presents a framework for automating the formulation and resolution of limit analysis problems in a very general manner. This framework relies on FEniCS domain-specific language and the representation of material…

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Convex variational problems arise in many fields ranging from image processing to fluid and solid mechanics communities. Interesting applications usually involve non-smooth terms which require well-designed optimization algorithms for their…

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An automated framework is presented for the numerical solution of optimal control problems with PDEs as constraints, in both the stationary and instationary settings. The associated code can solve both linear and non-linear problems, and…

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The solution of optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) plays an important role in many areas of science and industry. In this work we present cashocs, a new software package written in Python, which…

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The traditional approach to investigating the stability of a physical system is to linearise the equations about a steady base solution, and to examine the eigenvalues of the linearised operator. Over the past several decades, it has been…

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A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

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Recent research has used deep learning to develop partial differential equation (PDE) models in science and engineering. The functional form of the PDE is determined by a neural network, and the neural network parameters are calibrated to…

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We consider optimization problems constrained by partial differential equations (PDEs) with additional constraints placed on the solution of the PDEs. We develop a general and versatile framework using infinite-valued penalization functions…

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Synthesis of optimization algorithms typically follows a {\em design-then-analyze\/} approach, which can obscure fundamental performance limits and hinder the systematic development of algorithms that operate near these limits. Recently, a…

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