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A support structure is required to successfully create structural parts in the powder bed fusion process for additive manufacturing. In this study, we present the topology optimization of a support structure that improves the heat…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Takao Miki , Shinji Nishiwaki

A topology optimization problem in a phase field setting is considered to obtain rigid structures, which are resilient to external forces and constructable with additive manufacturing. Hence, large deformations of overhangs due to gravity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Luise Blank , Maximilian Urmann

We introduce a new "subpixel-smoothed projection" (SSP) formulation for differentiable binarization in topology optimization (TopOpt) as a drop-in replacement for previous projection schemes, which suffer from near-non-differentiability and…

Topology optimization enables the design of highly efficient and complex structures, but conventional iterative methods, such as SIMP-based approaches, often suffer from high computational costs and sensitivity to initial conditions.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Aaron Lutheran , Srijan Das , Alireza Tabarraei

We propose a variational principle combining a phase-field functional for structural topology optimization with a mixed (three-field) Hu-Washizu functional, then including directly in the formulation equilibrium, constitutive, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Michele Marino , Ferdinando Auricchio , Alessandro Reali , Elisabetta Rocca , Ulisse Stefanelli

As one of the most popular interface-capturing methods, the level-set method is inherently non-conservative, and its evolution usually leads to unphysical mass gain/loss. In this paper, a novel conservative level set method is developed for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Tian Long , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

The optimization of porous infill structures via local volume constraints has become a popular approach in topology optimization. In some design settings, however, the iterative optimization process converges only slowly, or not at all even…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Junpeng Wang , Jun Wu , Rüdiger Westermann

Solving different types of optimization models (including parameters fitting) for support vector machines on large-scale training data is often an expensive computational task. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithmic framework that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-10-14 Talayeh Razzaghi , Ilya Safro

We consider the standard optimistic bilevel optimization problem, in particular upper- and lower-level constraints can be coupled. By means of the lower-level value function, the problem is transformed into a single-level optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Andreas Fischer , Alain B. Zemkoho , Shenglong Zhou

A new concept for the higher-order accurate approximation of partial differential equations on manifolds is proposed where a surface mesh composed by higher-order elements is automatically generated based on level-set data. Thereby, it…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-10-11 T. P. Fries , D. Schöllhammer

A novel coupled level-set lattice Boltzmann method on adaptive Cartesian grids for simulating liquid-gas multiphase flows is presented. The approach addresses the inherent challenges of accurately modeling multiphase systems characterized…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-12 Julian Vorspohl , Yuxing Peng , Matthias Meinke , Dominik Krug , Wolfgang Schröder

We consider the topology optimization problem of a 2d permanent magnet synchronous machine in magnetostatic operation with demagnetization. This amounts to a PDE-constrained multi-material design optimization problem with an additional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Nepomuk Krenn , Peter Gangl

Materials design can be cast as an optimization problem with the goal of achieving desired properties, by varying material composition, microstructure morphology, and processing conditions. Existence of both qualitative and quantitative…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-08 Akshay Iyer , Yichi Zhang , Aditya Prasad , Siyu Tao , Yixing Wang , Linda Schadler , L Catherine Brinson , Wei Chen

This paper proposes an efficient algorithm for solving the Hartree--Fock equation combining a multilevel correction scheme with an adaptive refinement technique to improve computational efficiency. The algorithm integrates a multilevel…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Fei Xu

We introduce a max-plus analogue of the Petrov-Galerkin finite element method, to solve finite horizon deterministic optimal control problems. The method relies on a max-plus variational formulation, and exploits the properties of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Marianne Akian , Stephane Gaubert , Asma Lakhoua

The optimization along the chain processing-structure-properties-performance is one of the core objectives in data-driven materials science. In this sense, processes are supposed to manufacture workpieces with targeted material…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-24 Tarek Iraki , Lukas Morand , Johannes Dornheim , Norbert Link , Dirk Helm

The dynamics of solid-liquid interfaces controlled by solute precipitation and/or dissolution due to the chemical reaction at the interface were computed in two dimensions using a phase field models. Sharp-interface asymptotic analysis…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Zhijie Xu , Hai Huang , Xiaoyi Li , Paul Meakin

Deformable fractured porous media appear in many geoscience applications. While the extended finite element (XFEM) has been successfully developed within the computational mechanics community for accurate modeling of the deformation, its…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Fanxiang Xu , Hadi Hajibeygi , Lambertus J. Sluys

Topology optimization (TO) in two dimensions often presents a trade-off between structural performance and manufacturability, with unpenalized (variable-thickness) methods yielding superior but complex designs, and penalized (SIMP) methods…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Gabriel Stankiewicz , Chaitanya Dev , Paul Steinmann

The use of topology optimization methods for the design of electric machines has become increasingly popular over the past years. Due to a desired increase in power density and a recent trend to high speed machines, thermal aspects play a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Nepomuk Krenn , Herbert De Gersem