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Advancements in information technology have enabled the creation of massive spatial datasets, driving the need for scalable and efficient computational methodologies. While offering viable solutions, centralized frameworks are limited by…

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Randomness is ubiquitous in modern engineering. The uncertainty is often modeled as random coefficients in the differential equations that describe the underlying physics. In this work, we describe a two-step framework for numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-02-03 Ting Wang , Jaroslaw Knap

A class of quasi-distribution evaluation criteria based on piecewise Bezier curves is proposed to address the issue of the inability to objectively evaluate finite element models. During the optimization design of mechanical parts, finite…

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In deep neural networks, better results can often be obtained by increasing the complexity of previously developed basic models. However, it is unclear whether there is a way to boost performance by decreasing the complexity of such models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Junran Wu , Jianhao Li , Yicheng Pan , Ke Xu

This paper investigates, without any regularization or penalization procedure, a shape optimization problem involving a simplified friction phenomena modeled by a scalar Tresca friction law. Precisely, using tools from convex and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-16 Samir Adly , Loïc Bourdin , Fabien Caubet , Aymeric Jacob de Cordemoy

This paper presents a novel computational scheme for sensitivity analysis of the velocity field in the level set method using the discrete adjoint method. The velocity field is represented in B-spline space, and the adjoint equations are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Hao Deng , Kazu Saitou

We present a stochastic descent algorithm for unconstrained optimization that is particularly efficient when the objective function is slow to evaluate and gradients are not easily obtained, as in some PDE-constrained optimization and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 David Kozak , Stephen Becker , Alireza Doostan , Luis Tenorio

Shape optimization is a challenging task in many engineering fields, since the numerical solutions of parametric system may be computationally expensive. This work presents a novel optimization procedure based on reduced order modeling,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Nicola Demo , Marco Tezzele , Gianluca Gustin , Gianpiero Lavini , Gianluigi Rozza

In the present work, a multi-scale framework for neural network enhanced methods is proposed for approximation of function and solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). By introducing the multi-scale concept, the total solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Xiaodan Ren

This paper deals with shape optimization for elastic materials under stochastic loads. It transfers the paradigm of stochastic dominance, which allows for flexible risk aversion via comparison with benchmark random variables, from…

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A level set topology optimization approach that uses an auxiliary density field to nucleate holes during the optimization process and achieves minimum feature size control in optimized designs is explored. The level set field determines the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Jorge L. Barrera , Markus J. Geiss , Kurt Maute

This document summarizes the main concepts of the finite element (FE) theory and constitutive relations as implemented in the open-source code phase-field multiphysics materials simulator PHIMATS https://github.com/ahcomat/PHIMATS. PHIMATS…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-15 Abdelrahman Hussein

In this paper, we propose a novel shape optimization approach for the source identification of elliptic equations. This identification problem arises from two application backgrounds: actuator placement in PDE-constrained optimal controls…

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Finite-difference methods are widely used for zeroth-order optimization in settings where gradient information is unavailable or expensive to compute. These procedures mimic first-order strategies by approximating gradients through function…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Marco Rando , Cesare Molinari , Lorenzo Rosasco , Silvia Villa

The numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs) is challenging because of the need to resolve spatiotemporal features over wide length and timescales. Often, it is computationally intractable to resolve the finest features…

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This work presents the application of a recently developed parametric, non-intrusive, and multi-fidelity reduced-order modeling method on high-dimensional displacement and stress fields arising from the structural analysis of geometries…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Christian Perron , Darshan Sarojini , Dushhyanth Rajaram , Jason Corman , Dimitri Mavris

We develop numerical methods for elliptic systems governed by partial segregation constraints, in which three nonnegative components are required to have a vanishing pointwise product throughout the domain. This constraint enforces that at…

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Fluid-structure interaction models are used to study how a material interacts with different fluids at different Reynolds numbers. Examining the same model not only for different fluids but also for different solids allows to optimize the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Peter Benner , Thomas Richter , Roman Weinhandl

A major goal of machine learning is to create techniques that abstract away irrelevant information. The generalisation property of standard Learning Classifier System (LCS) removes such information at the feature level but not at the…

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