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This paper is concerned with the optimal shape design of the newtonian viscous incompressible fluids driven by the stationary nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We use three approaches to derive the structures of shape gradients for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma , Hongwei Zhuang

Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alexander Luce , Rasoul Alaee , Fabian Knorr , Florian Marquardt

Gradient-based optimization of engineering designs is limited by non-differentiable components in the typical computer-aided engineering (CAE) workflow, which calculates performance metrics from design parameters. While gradient-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Andrin Rehmann , Nolan Black , Josiah Bjorgaard , Alessandro Angioi , Andrei Paleyes , Niklas Heim , Dion Häfner , Alexander Lavin

This contribution proposes a new formulation to efficiently compute directional derivatives of order one to fourth. The formulation is based on automatic differentiation implemented with dual numbers. Directional derivatives are particular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-06-14 R. Peón-Escalante , K. B. Cantún-Avila , O. Carvente , A. Espinosa-Romero , F. Peñuñuri

In this work, we present a machine learning approach for reducing the error when numerically solving time-dependent partial differential equations (PDE). We use a fully convolutional LSTM network to exploit the spatiotemporal dynamics of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Ben Stevens , Tim Colonius

For an educational purpose we develop the Python package AutoFreeFem which generates all ingredients for shape optimization with non-linear multi-physics in FreeFEM++ and also outputs the expressions for use in LaTex. As an input, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Grégoire Allaire , Michael H. Gfrerer

In this paper we study an abstract framework for computing shape derivatives of functionals subject to PDE constraints. We revisit the Lagrangian approach using the implicit function theorem in an abstract setting tailored for applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Antoine Laurain , Pedro T. P. Lopes , Jean C. Nakasato

As more and more multiphysics effects are entering the field of CFD simulations, this raises the question how they can be accurately captured in gradient computations for shape optimization. The latter has been successfully enriched over…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Ole Burghardt , Nicolas R. Gauger

We present a methodology combining neural networks with physical principle constraints in the form of partial differential equations (PDEs). The approach allows to train neural networks while respecting the PDEs as a strong constraint in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-06 Sebastian K. Mitusch , Simon W. Funke , Miroslav Kuchta

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shahed Rezaei , Reza Najian Asl , Kianoosh Taghikhani , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

Partial differential equations (PDEs) underlie our understanding and prediction of natural phenomena across numerous fields, including physics, engineering, and finance. However, solving parametric PDEs is a complex task that necessitates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-20 Jae Yong Lee , Seungchan Ko , Youngjoon Hong

The neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) framework has emerged as a powerful tool for developing accelerated surrogate models of complex physical systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). A popular approach for PDE…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ashish S. Nair , Shivam Barwey , Pinaki Pal , Jonathan F. MacArt , Troy Arcomano , Romit Maulik

This work deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas

In this article, the shape optimization of a linear elastic body subject to frictional (Tresca) contact is investigated. Due to the projection operators involved in the formulation of the contact problem, the solution is not shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Bastien Chaudet-Dumas , Jean Deteix

Industrial design evaluation often relies on high-fidelity simulations of governing partial differential equations (PDEs). While accurate, these simulations are computationally expensive, making dense exploration of design spaces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zhizhou Zhang , Youjia Wu , Kaixuan Zhang , Yanjia Wang

We propose a general framework for differentiating shapes represented in binary images with respect to their parameters. This framework functions as an automatic differentiation tool for shape parameters, generating both binary density maps…

Computational Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhaocheng Liu , Jim Bonar

In this work, we investigate the numerical approximation of the second order non-autonomous semilnear parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) using the finite element method. To the best of our knowledge, only the linear case is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-27 Antoine Tambue , Jean Daniel Mukam

Mathematical models that couple partial differential equations (PDEs) and spatially distributed ordinary differential equations (ODEs) arise in biology, medicine, chemistry and many other fields. In this paper we discuss an extension to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-28 Patrick E. Farrell , Johan E. Hake , Simon W. Funke , Marie E. Rognes

The take-home message of this paper is that solving optimal control problems can be computationally straightforward, provided that differentiable partial differential equation (PDE) solvers are available. Although this might seem to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-23 Denis Khimin , Julian Roth , Alexander Henkes , Thomas Wick

We derive necessary conditions for locally optimal shapes of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity of the state system is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity. We work in the framework of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-21 Livia Betz