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Tracking Lagrangian coherent structures in dynamical systems is important for many applications such as oceanography and weather prediction. In this paper, we present a collaborative robotic control strategy designed to track stable and…

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Our ability to predict, control, and ultimately understand complex systems rests on discovering the equations that govern their dynamics. Identifying these equations directly from noisy, limited observations has therefore become a central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yuzheng Zhang , Weizhen Li , Rui Carvalho

In this paper we use the finite size Lyapunov Exponent (FSLE) to characterize Lagrangian coherent structures in three-dimensional (3d) turbulent flows. Lagrangian coherent structures act as the organizers of transport in fluid flows and are…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2013-06-12 João H Bettencourt , Cristóbal López , Emilio Hernández-García

Lagrangian particle tracking is essential for characterizing turbulent flows, but inferring particle acceleration from inherently noisy position data remains a significant challenge. Fluid particles in turbulence experience extreme,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2026-02-27 Griffin M Kearney , Kasey M Laurent , Makan Fardad

This survey summarizes and illustrates the main qualitative properties of hydrodynamics models for collective behavior. These models include a velocity consensus term together with attractive-repulsive potentials leading to non-trivial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-05 José A. Carrillo , Young-Pil Choi , Sergio P. Perez

We introduce a high-performance implementation of a loosely coherent statistic sensitive to signals spanning a finite-dimensional manifold in parameter space. Results from full scale simulations on Gaussian noise are discussed, as well as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Vladimir Dergachev

We present sDBSCAN, a scalable density-based clustering algorithm in high dimensions with cosine distance. Utilizing the neighborhood-preserving property of random projections, sDBSCAN can quickly identify core points and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Haochuan Xu , Ninh Pham

The goal of generative models is to learn the intricate relations between the data to create new simulated data, but current approaches fail in very high dimensions. When the true data generating process is based on physical processes these…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Biwei Dai , Uros Seljak

Lagrangian Neural Networks (LNNs) can learn arbitrary Lagrangians from trajectory data, but their unusual optimization objective leads to significant training instabilities that limit their application to complex systems. We propose several…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Abdullah Umut Hamzaogullari , Arkadas Ozakin

We analyze data from direct numerical simulations of homogeneous and isotropic turbulence (at Re_\lambda \approx 280) and study the statistics of curvature and torsion of Lagrangian trajectories in order to extract informations on the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-09-11 Andrea Scagliarini

We propose a sparse regression method capable of discovering the governing partial differential equation(s) of a given system by time series measurements in the spatial domain. The regression framework relies on sparsity promoting…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-09-22 Samuel H. Rudy , Steven L. Brunton , Joshua L. Proctor , J. Nathan Kutz

In this paper we propose and test the validity of simple and easy-to-implement algorithms within the immersed boundary framework geared towards large scale simulations involving thousands of deformable bodies in highly turbulent flows.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Vamsi Spandan , Detlef Lohse , Marco D. de Tullio , Roberto Verzicco

Particle-laden effects in high-speed flows require a coupled Euler and Lagrangian prediction technique with varying fidelity of thermochemical models, depending on the simulation conditions of interest. This requirement makes the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-12-23 Hyeon Woo Nam , Tae Woong Jeong , Sung Min Jo

Interpretable models can have advantages over black-box models, and interpretability is essential for the application of machine learning in critical settings, such as aviation or medicine. This article introduces the LASSO-Clip-EN (LCEN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Pedro Seber , Richard D. Braatz

We consider the assimilation of Lagrangian data into a primitive equations circulation model of the ocean at basin scale. The Lagrangian data are positions of floats drifting at fixed depth. We aim at reconstructing the four-dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Maëlle Nodet

Lagrangian techniques, such as the finite-time Lyapunov exponent (FTLE) and hyperbolic Lagrangian coherent structures (LCS), have become popular tools for analyzing unsteady fluid flows. These techniques identify regions where particles…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-10-27 Peter J. Nolan , Mattia Serra , Shane D. Ross

Concepts and tools from network theory, the so-called Lagrangian Flow Network framework, have been successfully used to obtain a coarse-grained description of transport by closed fluid flows. Here we explore the application of this…

We investigate the ability of simple diagnostics based on Lagrangian descriptor (LD) computations of initially nearby orbits to detect chaos in conservative dynamical systems with phase space dimensionality higher than two. In particular,…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Sebastian Zimper , Arnold Ngapasare , Malcolm Hillebrand , Matthaios Katsanikas , Stephen R. Wiggins , Charalampos Skokos

Large-scale coherent structures are identified in turbulent pipe flow at $Re_\tau=181$ by having long lifetimes, living on large scales and travelling with a certain group velocity. A Characteristic Dynamic Mode Decomposition (CDMD) is used…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-09-28 Amir Shahirpour , Christoph Egbers , Jörn Sesterhenn

We propose a new method to linearise cosmological mass density fields using higher order Lagrangian perturbation theory (LPT). We demonstrate that a given density field can be expressed as the sum of a linear and a nonlinear component which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 F. S. Kitaura , R. E. Angulo