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We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

Shape optimization is commonly applied in engineering to optimize shapes with respect to an objective functional relying on PDE solutions. In this paper, we view shape optimization as optimization on Riemannian shape manifolds. We consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

The rapidly evolving field of engineering design of functional surfaces necessitates sophisticated tools to manage the inherent complexity of high-dimensional design spaces. This survey paper offers a scoping review, i.e., a literature…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Andrea Serani , Matteo Diez

We introduce an efficient and scalable method for density-based multi-material topology optimization, integrating classical mirror descent techniques with point-wise polytopal design constraints. Such constraints arise naturally in this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Peter Gangl , Brendan Keith , Dohyun Kim , Boyan S. Lazarov , Thomas M. Surowiec

We consider the existence of optimal shapes in the context of the thermomechanical system of partial differential equations (PDE) using the recent approach based on elliptic regularity theory. We give an extended and improved definition of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Laura Bittner , Hanno Gottschalk

Lattice-type structures can provide a combination of stiffness with light weight that is desirable in a variety of applications. Design optimization of these structures must rely on approximations of the governing physics to render solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-05 Sean McBane , Youngsoo Choi

As manufacture processes become more complex, the direct extrusion of material still remains a reliable method of fabrication and processing a variety of materials, but most commonly ceramics. These materials are shaped by a die that can…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-08-04 Damien Jon Leech , Sonny Lightfoot , Tavs Jorgensen

Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Arun L. Gain , Glaucio H. Paulino , Leonardo Duarte , Ivan F. M. Menezes

Amorphous materials of homogeneous structures usually suffer from nonuniform deformation under shear, which can develop into shear localization and eventually destructive shear band. One approach to tackle this issue is to introduce an…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-01 Guo-Jie J. Gao , Yun-Jiang Wang , Shigenobu Ogata

In this paper, we perform a rigourous version of shape and topological derivatives for optimizations problems under constraint Helmoltz problems. A shape and topological optimization problem is formulated by introducing cost functional. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-17 Mame Gor Ngom , Ibrahima Faye , Diaraf Seck

Local optimization presents a promising approach to expensive, high-dimensional black-box optimization by sidestepping the need to globally explore the search space. For objective functions whose gradient cannot be evaluated directly,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Quan Nguyen , Kaiwen Wu , Jacob R. Gardner , Roman Garnett

This paper presents a Material Mask Overlay topology optimization approach with the improved material assignment at the element level for achieving the desired discreteness of the optimized designs for pressure-loaded problems. Hexagonal…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Prabhat Kumar , Anupam Saxena

We consider pessimistic bilevel stochastic programs in which the follower maximizes over a fixed compact convex set a strictly convex quadratic function, whose Hessian depends on the leader's decision. The resulting random variable is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-30 Johanna Burtscheidt , Matthias Claus , Sergio Conti , Martin Rumpf , Josua Sassen , Rüdiger Schultz

Shape optimization based on shape calculus has received a lot of attention in recent years, particularly regarding the development, analysis, and modification of efficient optimization algorithms. In this paper we propose and investigate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Sebastian Blauth

Decentralized optimization is well studied for smooth unconstrained problems. However, constrained problems or problems with composite terms are an open direction for research. We study structured (or composite) optimization problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-10 Alexander Rogozin , Anton Novitskii , Alexander Gasnikov

Topology optimization is an important basis for the design of components. Here, the optimal structure is found within a design space subject to boundary conditions. Thereby, the specific material law has a strong impact on the final design.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Miriam Kick , Philipp Junker

We consider the method of mappings for performing shape optimization for unsteady fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. In this work, we focus on the numerical implementation. We model the optimization problem such that it takes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Johannes Haubner , Michael Ulbrich

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang

We introduce Fireshape, an open-source and automated shape optimization toolbox for the finite element software Firedrake. Fireshape is based on the moving mesh method and allows users with minimal shape optimization knowledge to tackle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-22 Alberto Paganini , Florian Wechsung

Lagrangian particle formulations of the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping algorithm (LDDMM) only allow for the study of a single shape. In this paper, we introduce and discuss both a theoretical and practical setting for the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-04 Sylvain Arguillère , Emmanuel Trélat , Alain Trouvé , Laurent Younes