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We introduce a new numerical method for solving time-harmonic acoustic scattering problems. The main focus is on plane waves scattered by smoothly varying material inhomogeneities. The proposed method works for any frequency $\omega$, but…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-14 Anton Arnold , Sjoerd Geevers , Ilaria Perugia , Dmitry Ponomarev

Inverse design of high-resolution and fine-detailed 3D lightweight mechanical structures is notoriously expensive due to the need for vast computational resources and the use of very fine-scaled complex meshes. Furthermore, in designing for…

This article deals with the problem of finding the best topology, pipe diameter choices, and operation parameters for realistic district heating networks. Present design tools that employ non-linear flow and heat transport models for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Maarten Blommaert , Yannick Wack , Martine Baelmans

We propose an algorithm for the computational homogenization of locally periodic hyperelastic structures undergoing large deformations due to external quasi-static loading. The algorithm performs clustering of macroscopic deformations into…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-26 Vladimír Lukeš , Eduard Rohan

The nonlinear conjugate gradient methods are known to be an effective approach for standard unconstrained optimization problems especially for large-scale problems. This paper proposes a proximal nonlinear conjugate gradient method, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Shodai Hamana , Yasushi Narushima

Localized features such as singularities, sharp gradients, discontinuities, and moving sources require adaptive finite element discretizations. Conventional refinement strategies introduce significant computational overhead through…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jan Niklas Schmäke , Martin Ruess

In gradient-based time domain topology optimization, design sensitivity analysis (DSA) of the dynamic response is essential, and requires high computational cost to directly differentiate, especially for high-order dynamic system. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Shuhao Li , Hu Wang , Jichao Yin , Xinchao Jiang , Yaya Zhang

This paper presents a density-based topology optimization method for designing 3D thin-walled structures with adaptive meshing. Uniform wall thickness is achieved by simultaneously constraining the minimum and maximum feature sizes using…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Yuqing Zhou , Tsuyoshi Nomura , Ercan M. Dede , Kazuhiro Saitou

We consider adaptive finite element methods for second-order elliptic PDEs, where the arising discrete systems are not solved exactly. For contractive iterative solvers, we formulate an adaptive algorithm which monitors and steers the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Gregor Gantner , Alexander Haberl , Dirk Praetorius , Stefan Schimanko

Recent advances in convex optimization have leveraged computer-assisted proofs to develop optimized first-order methods that improve over classical algorithms. However, each optimized method is specially tailored for a particular problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Jinho Bok , Jason M. Altschuler

We prove global convergence of classical projection algorithms for feasibility problems involving union convex sets, which refer to sets expressible as the union of a finite number of closed convex sets. We present a unified strategy for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Jan Harold Alcantara , Ching-pei Lee

In this work, we implement goal-oriented error control and spatial mesh adaptivity for stationary fluid-structure interaction. The a posteriori error estimator is realized using the dual-weighted residual method in which the adjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Thomas Wick

We develop $H$(div)-conforming mixed finite element methods for the unsteady Stokes equations modeling single-phase incompressible fluid flow. A projection method in the framework of the incremental pressure correction methodology is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-21 Costanza Aricò , Rainer Helmig , Ivan Yotov

This paper applies a discrete adjoint gradient computation method for a multi-class traffic flow model on road networks. Vehicle classes are characterized by their specific velocity functions, which depend on the total traffic density,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Paola Goatin , Axel Klar , Carmen Mezquita-Nieto

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) based methods have turned out to be an effective computational approach for numerical homogenisation. In particular, Fourier-Galerkin methods are computational methods for partial differential equations that are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Jaroslav Vondřejc , Dishi Liu , Martin Ladecký , Hermann G. Matthies

This paper proposes a distributed stochastic projection-free algorithm for large-scale constrained finite-sum optimization whose constraint set is complicated such that the projection onto the constraint set can be expensive. The global…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Xia Jiang , Xianlin Zeng , Lihua Xie , Jian Sun , Jie Chen

Adjoint systems are widely used to inform control, optimization, and design in systems described by ordinary differential equations or differential-algebraic equations. In this paper, we explore the geometric properties and develop methods…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Brian Tran , Melvin Leok

We study Chorin's projection method combined with a finite element spatial discretization for the time-dependent incompressible Navier-Stokes equations. The scheme advances the solution in two steps: a prediction step, which computes an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Franziska Weber

Parallel and cyclic projection algorithms are proposed for minimizing the sum of a finite family of convex functions over the intersection of a finite family of closed convex subsets of a Hilbert space. These algorithms are of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-08 Hong-Kun Xu , Vera Roshchina

This work is devoted to establish the strong convergence results of an iterative algorithm generated by the shrinking projection method in Hilbert spaces. The proposed approximation sequence is used to find a common element in the set of…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-07 Abdul Ghaffar , Zafar Ullah , Muhammad Aqeel Ahmad Khan , Faisal Mumtaz