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We demonstrate several techniques to encourage practical uses of neural networks for fluid flow estimation. In the present paper, three perspectives which are remaining challenges for applications of machine learning to fluid dynamics are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-19 Masaki Morimoto , Kai Fukami , Kai Zhang , Koji Fukagata

The design of microfluidic devices is a cumbersome and tedious process that can be significantly improved by simulation. Methods based on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are considered state-of-the-art, but require extensive compute time…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Michel Takken , Robert Wille

In this investigation we revisit the concept of "effective free surfaces" arising in the solution of the time-averaged fluid dynamics equations in the presence of free boundaries. This work is motivated by applications of the optimization…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-04 R. Yapalparvi , B. Protas

This work proposes an accelerated primal-dual dynamical system for affine constrained convex optimization and presents a class of primal-dual methods with nonergodic convergence rates. In continuous level, exponential decay of a novel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-12 Hao Luo

Fluidic devices are crucial components in many industrial applications involving fluid mechanics. Computational design of a high-performance fluidic system faces multifaceted challenges regarding its geometric representation and physical…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Yifei Li , Tao Du , Sangeetha Grama Srinivasan , Kui Wu , Bo Zhu , Eftychios Sifakis , Wojciech Matusik

Driven by the advancement of GPUs and AI, the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is undergoing significant transformations. This paper bridges the gap between the machine learning and CFD communities by deconstructing…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-26 Neil Ashton , Johannes Brandstetter , Siddhartha Mishra

This paper is concerned with boundary integral equation methods for solving the two-dimensional fluid-solid interaction problem. We reduce the problem to three differential systems of boundary integral equations via direct and indirect…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-01 Tao Yin , George C. Hsiao , Liwei Xu

We propose a primal-dual parallel proximal splitting method for solving domain decomposition problems for partial differential equations. The problem is formulated via minimization of energy functions on the subdomains with coupling…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-17 Hédy Attouch , Luis M. Briceño-Arias , Patrick L. Combettes

This paper presents a topology optimization approach for surface flows, which can represent the viscous and incompressible fluidic motions at the solid/liquid and liquid/vapor interfaces. The fluidic motions on such material interfaces can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Yongbo Deng , Weihong Zhang , Jihong Zhu , Junqiang Bai , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

The paper is concerned with modeling and simulating approaches of wall distance functions based on Partial Differential Equations (PDE). The distance to the nearest wall is required for many industrial problems in Computational Fluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-04-11 Niklas Kühl

We develop an inexact primal-dual first-order smoothing framework to solve a class of non-bilinear saddle point problems with primal strong convexity. Compared with existing methods, our framework yields a significant improvement over the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-25 Le Thi Khanh Hien , Renbo Zhao , William B. Haskell

We propose a new first-order primal-dual optimization framework for a convex optimization template with broad applications. Our optimization algorithms feature optimal convergence guarantees under a variety of common structure assumptions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-23 Quoc Tran-Dinh , Olivier Fercoq , Volkan Cevher

The paper is devoted to the study of a new class of optimal control problems governed by discontinuous constrained differential inclusions of the sweeping type with involving the duration of the dynamic process into optimization. We develop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-18 Giovanni Colombo , Boris S. Mordukhovich , Dao Nguyen , Trang Nguyen

Computer simulation is an important tool for scientific progress, especially when lab experiments are either extremely costly and difficult or lack the required resolution. However, all of the simulation methods come with limitations. In…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-04 Edward R. Smith , Panagiotis E. Theodorakis

Many systems exhibit a mixture of continuous and discrete dynamics. We consider a family of mixed-integer non-convex non-linear optimisation problems obtained in discretisations of optimal control of such systems. For this family, a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-23 Jorn Baayen , Jakub Marecek

When writing a constraint program, we have to choose which variables should be the decision variables, and how to represent the constraints on these variables. In many cases, there is considerable choice for the decision variables.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-04 B. Hnich , B. M. Smith , T. Walsh

A discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) coupled with the immersed boundary (IB) method is developed to perform interface-resolved simulation of particle-laden flows. The present method (IB-DUGKS) preserves the respective advantages of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-17 Shi Tao , Haolong Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Lian-Ping Wang

We design accelerated algorithms with improved rates for several fundamental classes of optimization problems. Our algorithms all build upon techniques related to the analysis of primal-dual extragradient methods via relative Lipschitzness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Yujia Jin , Aaron Sidford , Kevin Tian

We present a novel method for guaranteeing linear momentum in learned physics simulations. Unlike existing methods, we enforce conservation of momentum with a hard constraint, which we realize via antisymmetrical continuous convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Lukas Prantl , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Vladlen Koltun , Nils Thuerey

Solving multiscale diffusion problems is often computationally expensive due to the spatial and temporal discretization challenges arising from high-contrast coefficients. To address this issue, a partially explicit temporal splitting…

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