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Solving flow-related inverse problems such as topology optimization problems is intricate but significant in various engineering fields. The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) and the related adjoint method are highly suitable to perform…

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The design space of dynamic multibody systems (MBSs), particularly those with flexible components, is considerably large. Consequently, having a means to efficiently explore this space and find the optimum solution within a feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Mehran Ebrahimi , Adrian Butscher , Hyunmin Cheong , Francesco Iorio

In recent years, the use of adjoint vectors in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has seen a dramatic rise. Their utility in numerous applications, including design optimization, data assimilation, and mesh adaptation has sparked the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Steven M. Kast

Multidisciplinary engineering system design typically employs a sequential process, progressing from system dynamics to design variables and control. However, this process is inefficient and may lead to a suboptimal design. We propose…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Sicheng He , Shugo Kaneko , Max Howell , Nan Li , Joaquim R. R. A. Martins

The mean resolvent operator predicts, in the frequency domain, the mean linear response to forcing. As such, it provides the optimal linear time-invariant approximation of the input-output dynamics of time-varying flows in the statistically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-10-16 Alessandro Bongarzone , Cédric Content , Denis Sipp , Colin Leclercq

High resolution simulations of incompressible flows have become routine across a range of engineering applications. Despite their routine use, due to the high dimensional parameter space present for most practical applications, a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-11-14 Christopher J. McDevitt , Eric Fowler , Subrata Roy

Many physical systems of interest involve the close interaction of a flow in a domain with complex, time-varying boundaries. Treatment of boundaries of this nature is cumbersome due to the difficulty in explicitly tracking boundaries that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-02-25 Emma M. Boyd , Eric Sandall , Maycon Meier , J. Matt Quinlan , Brandon Runnels

We report on recent work on adaptive timestep control for weakly instationary gas flows [16, 18, 17] carried out within SFB 401, TPA3. The method which we implement and extend is a space-time splitting of adjoint error representations for…

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This paper reports on the derivation and implementation of a shape optimization procedure for the minimization of hemolysis induction in biomedical devices. Hemolysis is a blood damaging phenomenon that may occur in mechanical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-01-27 Georgios Bletsos , Niklas Kühl , Thomas Rung

The adjoint method is an efficient way to numerically compute gradients in optimization problems with constraints, but is only formulated to differentiable cost and constraint functions on real variables. With the introduction of complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Andrew Zheng , Adam R. Stinchcombe

We propose a data-driven methodology to learn a low-dimensional manifold of controlled flows. The starting point is resolving snapshot flow data for a representative ensemble of actuations. Key enablers for the actuation manifold are…

The method of characteristics is a classical method for gaining understanding in the solution of a partial differential equation. It has recently been applied to the adjoint equations of the 2D Euler equations and the first goal of this…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-05-08 Kevin Ancourt , Jacques Peter , Olivier Atinault

Direct numerical simulations (DNS) are an indispensable tool for understanding the fundamental physics of turbulent flows. Because of their steep increase in computational cost with Reynolds number ($R_{\lambda}$), well-resolved DNS are…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Komal Kumari , Diego A. Donzis

Numerical simulation of multi-component flow systems characterized by the simultaneous presence of pressure-velocity coupling and pressure-density coupling dominated regions remains a significant challenge in computational fluid dynamics.…

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Linear optimal gains are computed for the subcritical two-dimensional separated boundary-layer flow past a bump. Very large optimal gain values are found, making it possible for small-amplitude noise to be strongly amplified and to…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-11-11 Edouard Boujo , Uwe Ehrenstein , François Gallaire

We use resolvent analysis to determine an unsteady active control setup to attenuate pressure fluctuations in turbulent supersonic flow over a rectangular cavity with a length-to-depth ratio of 6 at a Mach number of 1.4 and a Reynolds…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-01 Qiong Liu , Yiyang Sun , Chi-An Yeh , Lawrence S. Ukeiley , Louis N. Cattafesta , Kunihiko Taira

We introduce Adjoint Sampling, a highly scalable and efficient algorithm for learning diffusion processes that sample from unnormalized densities, or energy functions. It is the first on-policy approach that allows significantly more…

We obtain the analytic adjoint solution for two-dimensional (2D) incompressible potential flow for a cost function measuring aerodynamic force using the connection of the adjoint approach to Green's functions and also by establishing and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-06-12 Carlos Lozano , Jorge Ponsin

Compressible flow varies from ideal-gas behavior at high pressures where molecular interactions become important. Density is described through a cubic equation of state while enthalpy and sound speed are functions of both temperature and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-11 William A. Sirignano

Several advances have been made in Data Assimilation techniques applied to blood flow modeling. Typically, idealized boundary conditions, only verified in straight parts of the vessel, are assumed. We present a general approach, based on a…

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