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In this paper we present a topology optimization technique applicable to a broad range of flow design problems. We propose also a discrete adjoint formulation effective for a wide class of Lattice Boltzmann Methods (LBM). This adjoint…

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We explain how to compute gradients of functions of the form $G = \frac{1}{2} \sum_{i=1}^{m} (E y_i - C_i)^2$, which often appear in the calibration of stochastic models, using Automatic Adjoint Differentiation and parallelization. We…

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We develop a micromorphic-based approach for finite element stabilization of reaction-convection-diffusion equations, by gradient enhancement of the field of interest via introducing an auxiliary variable. The well-posedness of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Soheil Firooz , B. Daya Reddy , Paul Steinmann

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

Shape optimization approaches to inverse design offer low-dimensional, physically-guided parameterizations of structures by representing them as combinations of shape primitives. However, on discretized rectilinear simulation grids,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Sean Hooten , Peng Sun , Liron Gantz , Marco Fiorentino , Raymond G. Beausoleil , Thomas Van Vaerenbergh

We present a method for efficient differentiable simulation of articulated bodies. This enables integration of articulated body dynamics into deep learning frameworks, and gradient-based optimization of neural networks that operate on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Yi-Ling Qiao , Junbang Liang , Vladlen Koltun , Ming C. Lin

Shape optimization is of great significance in structural engineering, as an efficient geometry leads to better performance of structures. However, the application of gradient-based shape optimization for structural and architectural design…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Gaoyuan Wu

Recently proposed gradient estimators enable gradient descent over stochastic programs with discrete jumps in the response surface, which are not covered by automatic differentiation (AD) alone. Although these estimators' capability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Philipp Andelfinger , Justin N. Kreikemeyer

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

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The sharp increasing in fabrication capabilities of nanomaterials, and complex structures such as meta-surfaces and metalens, has opened to the possibility of employing them for accurately control the electromagnetic field, beyond the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Vincenzo Mottola , Luisa Faella , Carlo Forestiere , Antonello Tamburrino

This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. The proposed procedure has several features which distinguishes it from the other procedures for the problem. First of all a sliding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Radoslaw Pytlak , Damian Suski

We develop a continuous adjoint formulation and implementation for controlling the deformation of clean, neutrally buoyant droplets in Stokes flow through farfield velocity boundary conditions. The focus is on dynamics where surface tension…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Alexandru Fikl , Daniel J. Bodony

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

Adjoint variable method in combination with gradient descent optimization has been widely used for the inverse design of nanophotonic devices. In many of such optimizations, the design region is only a small fraction of the total…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Nathan Zhao , Salim Boutami , Shanhui Fan

Rapid advances in deep learning have brought not only myriad powerful neural networks, but also breakthroughs that benefit established scientific research. In particular, automatic differentiation (AD) tools and computational accelerators…

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Accelerated gradient descent iterations are widely used in optimization. It is known that, in the continuous-time limit, these iterations converge to a second-order differential equation which we refer to as the accelerated gradient flow.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Farazmand

A computational fluid dynamics code is differentiated using algorithmic differentiation (AD) in both tangent and adjoint modes. The two novelties of the present approach are 1) the adjoint code is obtained by letting the AD tool Tapenade…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-07-10 J. I. Cardesa , L. Hascoët , C. Airiau

Coupled 3D-1D problems arise in many practical applications, in an attempt to reduce the computational burden in simulations where cylindrical inclusions with a small section are embedded in a much larger domain. Nonetheless the resolution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-10 Stefano Berrone , Denise Grappein , Stefano Scialò , Fabio Vicini

We study the use of approximate Lagrange multipliers and discrete actions in solving convex optimisation problems. We observe that descent, which can be ensured using a wide range of approaches (gradient, subgradient, Newton, etc.), is…

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