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We present an efficient solver for diffeomorphic image registration problems in the framework of Large Deformations Diffeomorphic Metric Mappings (LDDMM). We use an optimal control formulation, in which the velocity field of a hyperbolic…
Multiphase flows with high density ratios, such as water and air flows, have recently been simulated using the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. This approach corresponds to solving the phase field equations, such as the Cahn-Hilliard and…
Strong approximation errors of both finite element semi-discretization and spatio-temporal full discretization are analyzed for the stochastic Allen-Cahn equation driven by additive noise in space dimension $d \leq 3$. The full…
Tuning step sizes is crucial for the stability and efficiency of optimization algorithms. While adaptive coordinate-wise step sizes have been shown to outperform scalar step size in first-order methods, their use in second-order methods is…
Non-smooth optimization is a core ingredient of many imaging or machine learning pipelines. Non-smoothness encodes structural constraints on the solutions, such as sparsity, group sparsity, low-rank and sharp edges. It is also the basis for…
In this work, the trailing-edge shape of an airfoil is optimized to reduce the acoustic noise based on large-eddy simulation (LES). It is achieved by the ensemble Kalman method, which can enhance the optimization efficiency by using the…
Simulation-driven shape optimisation (SDSO) of marine propellers is often obstructed by high-dimensional design spaces stemming from its complex geometry and baseline parameterisation, which leads to the notorious curse of dimensionality.…
This work develops a robust and efficient framework of the adjoint gradient-based aerodynamic shape optimization (ASO) using high-order discontinuous Galerkin methods (DGMs) as the CFD solver. The adjoint-enabled gradients based on…
We study an optimization problem that aims to determine the shape of an obstacle that is submerged in a fluid governed by the Stokes equations. The mentioned flow takes place in a channel, which motivated the imposition of a Poiseuille-like…
The work provides an integrated pipeline for the model order reduction of turbulent flows around parametrised geometries in aerodynamics. In particular, Free-Form Deformation is applied for geometry parametrisation, whereas two different…
In the field of parametric partial differential equations, shape optimization represents a challenging problem due to the required computational resources. In this contribution, a data-driven framework involving multiple reduction…
In this paper, a novel augmented Lagrangian preconditioner based on global Arnoldi for accelerating the convergence of Krylov subspace methods applied to linear systems of equations with a block three-by-three structure, these systems…
This paper presents a method for simultaneous optimization of the outer shape and internal topology of aircraft wings, with the objective of minimizing drag subject to lift and compliance constraints for multiple load cases. The physics are…
In the preliminary design of space missions it can be useful to identify regions of dynamics that drive the system's behaviour or separate qualitatively different dynamics. The Lagrangian Coherent Structure (LCS) has been widely used in the…
This study presents a shape optimization framework that combines a Flux Reconstruction (FR) spatial discretization, Large Eddy Simulation (LES), the Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings (FW-H) formulation, and the gradient-free Mesh Adaptive Direct…
In this paper, we develop a novel primal-dual semismooth Newton method for solving linearly constrained multi-block convex composite optimization problems. First, a differentiable augmented Lagrangian (AL) function is constructed by…
Rational approximation appears in many contexts throughout science and engineering, playing a central role in linear systems theory, special function approximation, and many others. There are many existing methods for solving the rational…
A new adaptive hybrid optimization strategy, entitled squads, is proposed for complex inverse analysis of computationally intensive physical models. The new strategy is designed to be computationally efficient and robust in identification…
We consider reduced-order modeling of nonlinear dispersive waves described by a class of nonlinear Schrodinger (NLS) equations. We compare two nonlinear reduced-order modeling methods: (i) The reduced Lagrangian approach which relies on the…
We present the results of the application of a parameter space reduction methodology based on active subspaces (AS) to the hull hydrodynamic design problem. Several parametric deformations of an initial hull shape are considered to assess…