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This article surveys nonlinear model reduction methods that remain effective in regimes where linear reduced-space approximations are intrinsically inefficient, such as transport-dominated problems with wave-like phenomena and moving…
This paper discusses a class of combinatorial optimization problems with uncertain costs in the objective function. It is assumed that a sample of the cost realizations is available, which defines an empirical probability distribution for…
Leveraging nonlinear parametrizations for model reduction can overcome the Kolmogorov barrier that affects transport-dominated problems. In this work, we build on the reduced dynamics given by Neural Galerkin schemes and propose to…
Wasserstein balls, which contain all probability measures within a pre-specified Wasserstein distance to a reference measure, have recently enjoyed wide popularity in the distributionally robust optimization and machine learning communities…
Variational problems that involve Wasserstein distances and more generally optimal transport (OT) theory are playing an increasingly important role in data sciences. Such problems can be used to form an examplar measure out of various…
We establish existence of compact minimizers of the prescribed mean curvature problem with volume constraint in periodic media. As a consequence, we construct compact approximate solutions to the prescribed mean curvature equation. We also…
We study the Wasserstein projection of a compactly supported probability measure onto the class of measures whose density ratio is bounded, and we place this projection in a broader program connecting generative modeling, optimal transport,…
We propose a new reduced order modeling strategy for tackling parametrized Partial Differential Equations (PDEs) with linear constraints, in particular Darcy flow systems in which the constraint is given by mass conservation. Our approach…
In this paper, we propose a deep learning based reduced order modeling method for stochastic underground flow problems in highly heterogeneous media. We aim to utilize supervised learning to build a reduced surrogate model from the…
The discrete Wasserstein barycenter problem is a minimum-cost mass transport problem for a set of probability measures with finite support. In this paper, we show that finding a barycenter of sparse support is hard, even in dimension 2 and…
The Richards equation is a nonlinear parabolic equation that is commonly used for modelling saturated/unsaturated flow in porous media. We assume that the medium occupies a bounded Lipschitz domain partitioned into two disjoint subdomains…
We consider a distributionally robust second-order stochastic dominance constrained optimization problem. We require the dominance constraints hold with respect to all probability distributions in a Wasserstein ball centered at the…
We deal with the obstacle problem for the porous medium equation in the slow diffusion regime $m>1$. Our main interest is to treat fairly irregular obstacles assuming only boundedness and lower semicontinuity. In particular, the considered…
In this article, the extensional flow and viscosity and the converging-diverging geometry were examined as the basis of the peculiar viscoelastic behavior in porous media. The modified Bautista-Manero model, which successfully describes…
The discrete Wasserstein barycenter problem is a minimum-cost mass transport problem for a set of discrete probability measures. Although an exact barycenter is computable through linear programming, the underlying linear program can be…
Inverse problems in physical or biological sciences often involve recovering an unknown parameter that is random. The sought-after quantity is a probability distribution of the unknown parameter, that produces data that aligns with…
The time discrete scheme of characteristics type is especially effective for convection-dominated diffusion problems. The scheme has been used in various engineering areas with different approximations in spatial direction. The lowest-order…
In this chapter we examine reduced order techniques for geometrical parametrized heat exchange systems, Poisson, and flows based on Stokes, steady and unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes and Cahn-Hilliard problems. The full order finite…
This paper presents a novel mass-conservative mixed multiscale method for solving flow equations in heterogeneous porous media. The media properties (the permeability) contain multiple scales and high contrast. The proposed method solves…
We propose a hybrid resampling method to approximate finitely supported Wasserstein barycenters on large-scale datasets, which can be combined with any exact solver. Nonasymptotic bounds on the expected error of the objective value as well…