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Power distribution in remote communities often depends on off-grid microgrids. In order to address the reliability challenges for these microgrids, we develop a mathematical model for topology design, capacity planning, and operation of…

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The computational cost of traditional Computational Fluid Dynamics-based Aerodynamic Shape Optimization severely restricts design space exploration. This paper introduces TripOptimizer, a fully differentiable deep learning framework for…

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We propose a model-based, automated, bottom-up approach for design, which is applicable to various physical domains, but in this work we focus on the electrical domain. This bottom-up approach is based on a meta-topology in which each link…

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An important new trend in additive manufacturing is the use of optimization to automatically design industrial objects, such as beams, rudders or wings. Topology optimization, as it is often called, computes the best configuration of…

Optimizing the topology of networks is an important challenge across engineering disciplines. In energy systems, network reconfiguration can substantially reduce losses and costs and thus support the energy transition. Unfortunately, many…

The space mapping technique is used to efficiently solve complex optimization problems. It combines the accuracy of fine model simulations with the speed of coarse model optimizations to approximate the solution of the fine model…

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Folding is emerging as a promising manufacturing process to transform flat materials into functional structures, offering efficiency by reducing the need for welding, gluing, and molding, while minimizing waste and enabling automation.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 João C. Neves , Bernardo R. Marques , Cristóvão S. Dias , Nuno A. M. Araújo

Structural topology optimization (TO) is central to engineering design but remains computationally intensive due to complex physics and hard constraints. Existing deep-learning methods are limited to fixed square grids, a few hand-coded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Amin Heyrani Nobari , Lyle Regenwetter , Cyril Picard , Ligong Han , Faez Ahmed

In topology optimization, the state of structures is typically obtained by numerically evaluating a discretized PDE-based model. The degrees of freedom of such a model can be partitioned in free and prescribed sets to define the boundary…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Stijn Koppen , Matthijs Langelaar , Fred van Keulen

Robust topology optimization (RTO), as a class of topology optimization problems, identifies a design with the best average performance while reducing the response sensitivity to input uncertainties, e.g. load uncertainty. Solving RTO is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Rini Jasmine Gladstone , Mohammad Amin Nabian , Vahid Keshavarzzadeh , Hadi Meidani

Spatial graphs are particular graphs for which the nodes are localized in space (e.g., public transport network, molecules, branching biological structures). In this work, we consider the problem of spatial graph reduction, that aims to…

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We propose an efficient threshold dynamics method for topology optimization for fluids modeled with the Stokes equation. The proposed algorithm is based on minimization of an objective energy function that consists of the dissipation power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Huangxin Chen , Haitao Leng , Dong Wang , Xiao-Ping Wang

There are several applications in computational biophysics which require the optimization of discrete interacting states; e.g., amino acid titration states, ligand oxidation states, or discrete rotamer angles. Such optimization can be very…

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We consider some iterative methods for finding the best interpolation data in the images compression with noise. The interpolation data consists of the set of pixels and their grey/color values. The aim in the iterative approach is to allow…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-30 Zakaria Belhachmi , Thomas Jacumin

We present a novel technique by which highly-segmented electrostatic configurations can be solved. The Robin Hood method is a matrix-inversion algorithm optimized for solving high density boundary element method (BEM) problems. We…

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Topological photonic crystals (PCs) can support robust edge modes to transport electromagnetic energy in an efficient manner. Such edge modes are the eigenmodes of the PDE operator for a joint optical structure formed by connecting together…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Chiu-Yen Kao , Junshan Lin , Braxton Osting

In this article, we present a method to reconstruct the topology of a partially observed radial network of linear dynamical systems with bi-directional interactions. Our approach exploits the structure of the inverse power spectral density…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Saurav Talukdar , Deepjyoti Deka , Michael Chertkov , Murti Salapaka

We demonstrate optimization of optical metasurfaces over $10^5$--$10^6$ degrees of freedom in two and three dimensions, 100--1000+ wavelengths ($\lambda$) in diameter, with 100+ parameters per $\lambda^2$. In particular, we show how…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Zin Lin , Victor Liu , Raphaël Pestourie , Steven G. Johnson

Typical topology optimization methods require complex iterative calculations, which cannot meet the requirements of fast computing applications. The neural network is studied to reduce the time of computing the optimization result, however,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Ce Guan , Jianyu Zhang , Zhen Li , Yongbo Deng