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We are interested in a reduced order method for the efficient simulation of blood flow in arteries. The blood dynamics is modeled by means of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. Our algorithm is based on an approximated…

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In this paper we apply topology optimization to micro-structured superhydrophobic surfaces for the first time. It has been experimentally observed that a droplet suspended on a brush of micrometric posts shows a high static contact angle…

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In this paper, we investigate numerically a diffuse interface model for the Navier-Stokes equation with fluid-fluid interface when the fluids have different densities \cite{Lowengrub1998}. Under minor reformulation of the system, we show…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhenlin Guo , Ping Lin , John S. Lowengrub

This paper presents a topology optimization approach for the surface flows on variable design domains. Via this approach, the matching between the pattern of a surface flow and the 2-manifold used to define the pattern can be optimized,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Yongbo Deng , Weihong Zhang , Jihong Zhu , Yingjie Xu , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

This paper presents a rigorous derivation of an effective model for fluid flow through a thin elastic porous membrane separating two fluid bulk domains. The microscopic setting involves a periodically structured porous membrane composed of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Markus Gahn , Maria Neuss-Radu

This article is concerned with the reconstruction of obstacle $\O$ immersed in a fluid flowing in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the two dimensional case. We assume that the fluid motion is governed by the Stokes-Brinkmann equations. We make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Mourad Hrizi , Rakia Malek , Maatoug Hassine

We consider the shape optimization of an object in Navier--Stokes flow by employing a combined phase field and porous medium approach, along with additional perimeter regularization. By considering integral control and state constraints, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

Photonic topology optimization is a technique used to find the electric permittivity distribution of a device that optimizes an electromagnetic figure-of-merit. Two common techniques are used: continuous density-based optimizations that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 Conner Ballew , Gregory Roberts , Tianzhe Zheng , Andrei Faraon

This paper presents a topology optimization method for designing two-fluid heat exchangers under turbulent conditions using a Darcy flow-based low-fidelity (LF) model. The LF model is calibrated against a high-fidelity (HF) model based on…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-08 Hiroki Kawabe , Kaito Ohtani , Kentaro Yaji , Ryota Fukunishi , Akira Ogawara

Particle flow processing is widely employed across various industrial applications and technologies. Due to the complex interactions between particles and fluids, designing effective devices for particle flow processing is challenging. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Chih-Hsiang Chen , Kentaro Yaji

The system of Navier--Stokes--Fourier equations is one of the most celebrated systems of equations in modern science. It describes dynamics of fluids in the limit when gradients of density, velocity and temperature are sufficiently small,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-03 A. N. Gorban , I. V. Karlin

A topology optimization formulation including a model of the layer-by-layer additive manufacturing (AM) process is considered. Defined as a multi-objective minimization problem, the formulation accounts for the performance and cost of both…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-29 G. A. Haveroth , C-J. Thore , M. R. Correa , R. F. Ausas , S. Jakobsson , J. A. Cuminato , A. Klarbring

The derivation of shallow water models from Navier-Stokes equations is revisited yielding a class of two-layer shallow water models.An improved velocity profile is proposed, based on the superposition of an ideal fluid and a viscous layer…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 François James , Pierre-Yves Lagrée , Hoang-Minh Le , Mathilde Legrand

Non-convex optimization problems have multiple local optimal solutions. Non-convex optimization problems are commonly found in numerous applications. One of the methods recently proposed to efficiently explore multiple local optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Mohamed Tarek , Yijiang Huang

In the present study, a discrete forcing Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is proposed for the numerical simulation of high-speed flow problems including heat exchange. The flow field is governed by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-01-24 Hamza Riahi , Eric Goncalves , Marcello Meldi

We derive a continuum sharp-interface model for moving contact lines with soluble surfactants in a thermodynamically consistent framework. The model consists of the isothermal two-phase incompressible Navier-Stokes equations for the fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-08-11 Quan Zhao , Weiqing Ren , Zhen Zhang

We analyze the problem for viscous incompressible heat-conduc\-ting fluid in a finite cylinder with large inflow and outflow, modelled with Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the heat equation. We prove energy estimate without…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-30 Joanna Rencławowicz , Wojciech M. Zajączkowski

We formulate a novel numerical method suitable for the solution of topology optimization problems in solid mechanics. The most salient feature of the new approach is that the space and time discrete equations of the numerical method can be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Edmund Bell-Navas , David Portillo , Ignacio Romero

This paper presents a new method to approximate the time-dependent convection-diffusion equations using conforming finite element methods, ensuring that the discrete solution respects the physical bounds imposed by the differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-06 Abdolreza Amiri , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Tristan Pryer

We extend to multi-dimensions the work of [1], where new fully explicit kinetic methods were built for the approximation of linear and non-linear convection-diffusion problems. The fundamental principles from the earlier work are retained:…

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