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The use of topology optimization methods for the design of electric machines has become increasingly popular over the past years. Due to a desired increase in power density and a recent trend to high speed machines, thermal aspects play a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Nepomuk Krenn , Herbert De Gersem

This paper presents a gradient-based method for on-the-fly optimization for both per-frame and per-frequency window length of the short-time Fourier transform (STFT), related to previous work in which we developed a differentiable version…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Maxime Leiber , Yosra Marnissi , Axel Barrau , Mohammed El Badaoui

A common optimization problem in the areas of magnetized plasmas and fusion energy is the design of magnets to produce a given three-dimensional magnetic field distribution to high precision. When designing arrays of permanent magnets for…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 K. C. Hammond , A. A. Kaptanoglu

We introduce a fluid dynamics algorithm that performs with nearly spectral accuracy, but uses finite-differences instead of FFTs to compute gradients and thus executes 10 times faster. The finite differencing is not based on a high-order…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jason Maron

We consider the topology optimization problem of a 2d permanent magnet synchronous machine in magnetostatic operation with demagnetization. This amounts to a PDE-constrained multi-material design optimization problem with an additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Nepomuk Krenn , Peter Gangl

In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Fan Xiao , Jingwei Wang , Zhongfei Xiong , Yuntian Chen

Finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulations often involve physical quantities spanning multiple orders of magnitude, such as the speed of light or electromagnetic field amplitudes. The standard practice for maintaining numerical…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-03-26 Yannik Mahlau , Lukas Berg , Bodo Rosenhahn

A design optimization framework for process parameters of additive manufacturing based on finite element simulation is proposed. The finite element method uses a coupled thermomechanical model developed for fused deposition modeling from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-29 Jingyi Wang , Panayiotis Papadopoulos

In this article I present a fast and direct method for solving several types of linear finite difference equations (FDE) with constant coefficients. The method is based on a polynomial form of the translation operator and its inverse, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-03 S. Merino

Multiscale topology optimization is crucial for designing porous infill structures with high stiffness-to-weight ratios and excellent energy absorption. Although gradient-based methods provide a rigorous framework, they are computationally…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Shuzhi Xu , Yifan Guo , Hiroki Kawabe , Kentaro Yaji

Permanent magnets provide an attractive path for shaping university-scale stellarator magnetic fields. Previous work has shown that greedy permanent magnet optimization (GPMO) can produce sparse, grid-aligned arrays that match target…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Armin Ulrich , Mason Haberle , Alan A. Kaptanoglu

The boundary integral method is an efficient approach for solving time-harmonic acoustic obstacle scattering problems. The main computational task is the evaluation of an oscillatory boundary integral at each discretization point of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-09-17 Lexing Ying

This paper provides an orientation angle optimization method for the design of fiber-reinforced composite materials using topology optimization. The orientation angle optimization is based on a topological derivative, which measures the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Masaki Noda , Kei Matsushima , Takayuki Yamada

We consider a 2d permanent magnet synchronous machine operating in a sequence of static operating points coming from a drive cycle. We aim to find a rotor design which maximizes the efficiency defined as the quotient of input and output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Nepomuk Krenn , Théodore Cherrière , Sebastian Schöps , Peter Gangl

Particle flow processing is widely employed across various industrial applications and technologies. Due to the complex interactions between particles and fluids, designing effective devices for particle flow processing is challenging. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Chih-Hsiang Chen , Kentaro Yaji

We introduce generalised finite difference methods for solving fully nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations. Methods are based on piecewise Cartesian meshes augmented by additional points along the boundary. This allows for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-26 Brittany D. Froese , Tiago Salvador

In this paper, we combine the multiscale flnite element method to propose an algorithm for solving the non-stationary Stokes-Darcy model, where the permeability coefflcient in the Darcy region exhibits multiscale characteristics. Our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Yachen Hong , Wenhan Zhang , Lina Zhao , Haibiao Zheng

This work is devoted to the development of an efficient and robust technique for accurate capturing of the electric field in multi-material problems. The formulation is based on the finite element method enriched by the introduction of…

This paper presents a computational framework for the robust stiffness design of hyperelastic structures at finite deformations subject to various uncertain sources. In particular, the loading, material properties, and geometry…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Nan Feng , Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal

This paper presents a novel bi-level topology optimization strategy within the method-of-moments paradigm. The proposed approach utilizes an auxiliary variables called edge resistivities related to the Rao-Wilton-Glisson method-of-moments…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-08-27 Stepan Bosak , Miloslav Capek , Jiri Matas