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Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD) represents an effective means for capturing the essential features of numerically or experimentally generated flow fields. In order to achieve a desirable tradeoff between the quality of approximation and…

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New technologies such as Rectified Flow and Flow Matching have significantly improved the performance of generative models in the past two years, especially in terms of control accuracy, generation quality, and generation efficiency.…

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We investigate a family of approximate multi-step proximal point methods, framed as implicit linear discretizations of gradient flow. The resulting methods are multi-step proximal point methods, with similar computational cost in each…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-15 Yushen Huang , Yifan Sun

This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-01 Eric Chung , Yalchin Efendiev , Wing Tat Leung

This paper investigates the connections between rectified flows, flow matching, and optimal transport. Flow matching is a recent approach to learning generative models by estimating velocity fields that guide transformations from a source…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Johannes Hertrich , Antonin Chambolle , Julie Delon

We consider mixing problems in the form of transient convection--diffusion equations with a velocity vector field with multiscale character and rough data. We assume that the velocity field has two scales, a coarse scale with slow spatial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-05 Erik Burman

The velocity, coupling term in the flow and transport problems, is important in the accurate numerical simulation or in the posteriori error analysis for adaptive mesh refinement. We consider Enhanced Velocity Mixed Finite Element Method…

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We investigate multi-physical topology optimization for microfluidic mixers employing the phase-field model. The optimization problem is formulated using a modified Ginzburg-Landau free energy functional. To eliminate fluid blockage in…

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Generating molecular graphs is crucial in drug design and discovery but remains challenging due to the complex interdependencies between nodes and edges. While diffusion models have demonstrated their potentiality in molecular graph design,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Xiaoyang Hou , Tian Zhu , Milong Ren , Dongbo Bu , Xin Gao , Chunming Zhang , Shiwei Sun

The optimal power flow (OPF) problem, which plays a central role in operating electrical networks is considered. The problem is nonconvex and is in fact NP hard. Therefore, designing efficient algorithms of practical relevance is crucial,…

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Recent advances in dynamic graph processing have enabled the analysis of highly dynamic graphs with change at rates as high as millions of edge changes per second. Solutions in this domain, however, have been demonstrated only for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Juntong Luo , Scott Sallinen , Matei Ripeanu

Mixing by cutting-and-shuffling can be understood and predicted using dynamical systems based tools and techniques. In existing studies, mixing is generated by maps that repeat the same cut-and-shuffle process at every iteration, in a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Lachlan D. Smith , Paul B. Umbanhowar , Julio M. Ottino , Richard M. Lueptow

We develop a method for multidimensional optimisation using flow equations. This method is based on homotopy continuation in combination with a maximum entropy approach. Extrema of the optimising functional correspond to fixed points of the…

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Mixing in open incompressible flows is studied in a model problem with inhomogeneous passive scalar injection on an inlet boundary. As a measure of the efficiency of stirring, the bulk scalar concentration variance is bounded and the bound…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-18 Jean-Luc Thiffeault , Charles R. Doering

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We prove a version of Bressan's mixing conjecture where the advecting field is constrained to be a shear at each time. Also, inspired by recent work of Blumenthal, Coti Zelati and Gvalani, we construct a particularly simple example of a…

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This paper introduces a simple formulation for topology optimization problems ensuring manufacturability by machining. The method distinguishes itself from existing methods by using the advection-diffusion equation with Robin boundary…

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Although the numerical results suggest the optimal convergence order of the two-grid finite element decoupled scheme for mixed Stokes-Darcy model with Beaver-Joseph-Saffman interface condition in literatures, the numerical analysis only get…

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We perform a convergence analysis of a discrete-in-time minimization scheme approximating a finite dimensional singularly perturbed gradient flow. We allow for different scalings between the viscosity parameter $\varepsilon$ and the time…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-11-14 Giovanni Scilla , Francesco Solombrino

An evolving surface finite element discretisation is analysed for the evolution of a closed two-dimensional surface governed by a system coupling a generalised forced mean curvature flow and a reaction--diffusion process on the surface,…

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