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Adjoint based shape optimization is a powerful technique in fluid-dynamics optimization, capable of identifying an optimal shape within only dozens of design iterations. However, when extended to rarefied gas flows, the computational cost…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Yanbing Zhang , Ruifeng Yuan , Lei Wu

Stochastic Maxwell equations with additive noise are a system of stochastic Hamiltonian partial differential equations intrinsically, possessing the stochastic multi-symplectic conservation law.It is shown that the averaged energy increases…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-29 Chuchu Chen , Jialin Hong , Liying Zhang

In recent years, the use of adjoint vectors in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has seen a dramatic rise. Their utility in numerous applications, including design optimization, data assimilation, and mesh adaptation has sparked the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Steven M. Kast

Many important theories in modern physics can be stated using differential geometry. Symplectic geometry is the natural framework to deal with autonomous Hamiltonian mechanics. This admits several generalizations for nonautonomous systems,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-04-26 Xavier Rivas Guijarro

In this chapter, we identify fundamental geometric structures that underlie the problems of sampling, optimisation, inference and adaptive decision-making. Based on this identification, we derive algorithms that exploit these geometric…

The shape gradient is a local sensitivity function that provides the change in a figure of merit associated with a perturbation to the shape of the object. The shape gradient can be used for gradient-based optimization, sensitivity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Elizabeth J. Paul , Thomas Antonsen, , Matt Landreman , W. Anthony Cooper

Optimizing shapes and topology of physical devices is crucial for both scientific and technological advancements, given its wide-ranging implications across numerous industries and research areas. Innovations in shape and topology…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Alexander Luce , Rasoul Alaee , Fabian Knorr , Florian Marquardt

The objective of this paper is to derive the essential invariance and contraction properties for the geometric periodic systems, which can be formulated as a category of differential inclusions, and primarily rendered in the phase…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-30 Chen Qian , Yongchun Fang

Solving quaternion kinematical differential equations is one of the most significant problems in the automation, navigation, aerospace and aeronautics literatures. Most existing approaches for this problem neither preserve the norm of…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Hong-Yan Zhang , Lu-Sha Zhou , Zi-Hao Wang , Long Ma , Yi-Fan Niu

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are widely adopted to discretize the radiation transport equation (RTE) with diffusive scalings. One of the most important advantages of the DG methods for RTE is their asymptotic preserving (AP)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-17 Cory D. Hauck , Qiwei Sheng , Yulong Xing

Variational symplectic algorithms have recently been developed for carrying out long-time simulation of charged particles in magnetic fields. As a direct consequence of their derivation from a discrete variational principle, these…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Jonathan Squire , Hong Qin , William M. Tang

In this paper, we develop the theoretical foundations of discrete Dirac mechanics, that is, discrete mechanics of degenerate Lagrangian/Hamiltonian systems with constraints. We first construct discrete analogues of Tulczyjew's triple and…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2015-02-13 Melvin Leok , Tomoki Ohsawa

Symmetries and adjoint-symmetries are two fundamental (coordinate-free) structures of PDE systems. Recent work has developed several new algebraic aspects of adjoint-symmetries: three fundamental actions of symmetries on adjoint-symmetries;…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-08-23 Stephen C. Anco

Discrete gradient methods are geometric integration techniques that can preserve the dissipative structure of gradient flows. Due to the monotonic decay of the function values, they are well suited for general convex and nonconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-17 Matthias J. Ehrhardt , Erlend S. Riis , Torbjørn Ringholm , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

This paper concerns the numerical procedure for solving hybrid optimal control problems with sliding modes. The proposed procedure has several features which distinguishes it from the other procedures for the problem. First of all a sliding…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Radoslaw Pytlak , Damian Suski

Numerical methods that preserve geometric invariants of the system, such as energy, momentum or the symplectic form, are called geometric integrators. Variational integrators are an important class of geometric integrators. The general idea…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Colombo , Manuela Gamonal Fernández , David Martín de Diego

The paper is concerned with an adjoint complement to the Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) method for immiscible two-phase flows, e.g. air and water, which is widely used in marine engineering due to its computational efficiency. The particular…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-06-02 Niklas Kühl , Jörn Kröger , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

This paper develops a framework connecting discrete adjoint gradient-error analysis with an optimization method that uses directional error tolerances, and applies it to airfoil shape optimization governed by a conservative full-potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Humberto Gimenes Macedo , Luís Felipe Bueno

In this paper, we prove necessary and sufficient conditions for a hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) method to satisfy a multisymplectic conservation law, when applied to a canonical Hamiltonian system of partial differential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-19 Robert I. McLachlan , Ari Stern

Relaxation Runge-Kutta methods reproduce a fully discrete dissipation (or conservation) of entropy for entropy stable semi-discretizations of nonlinear conservation laws. In this paper, we derive the discrete adjoint of relaxation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-27 Mario J. Bencomo , Jesse Chan