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Shape optimization based on surface gradients and the Hadarmard-form is considered for a compressible viscous fluid. Special attention is given to the difference between the 'function composition' approach involving local shape derivatives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Matthias Sonntag , Stephan Schmidt , Nicolas R. Gauger

This paper is devoted to the theoretical and numerical investigation of an augmented Lagrangian method for the solution of optimization problems with geometric constraints. Specifically, we study situations where parts of the constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-20 Xiaoxi Jia , Christian Kanzow , Patrick Mehlitz , Gerd Wachsmuth

This work presents a concise theoretical and computational framework for the finite element formulation of frictional contact problems with arbitrarily large deformation and sliding. The aim of this work is to extend the contact theory…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Thang X. Duong , Roger A. Sauer

Estimating correspondences between deformed shape instances is a long-standing problem in computer graphics; numerous applications, from texture transfer to statistical modelling, rely on recovering an accurate correspondence map. Many…

Modeling membrane interactions with arbitrarily shaped colloidal particles, such as environmental micro- and nanoplastics, at the cell scale remains particularly challenging, owing to the complexity of particle geometries and the need to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-15 Didarul Ahasan Redwan , Justin Reicher , Xin Yong

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

We advance a combined filtered/phase-field approach to topology optimization in the setting of linearized elasticity. Existence of minimizers is proved and rigorous parameter asymptotics are discussed by means of variational convergence…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Ferdinando Auricchio , Michele Marino , Idriss Mazari , Ulisse Stefanelli

This article proposes a new discrete framework for approximating solutions to shape optimization problems under convexity constraints. The numerical method, based on the support function or the gauge function, is guaranteed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Beniamin Bogosel

Shape optimization is a challenging task in many engineering fields, since the numerical solutions of parametric system may be computationally expensive. This work presents a novel optimization procedure based on reduced order modeling,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-07 Nicola Demo , Marco Tezzele , Gianluca Gustin , Gianpiero Lavini , Gianluigi Rozza

A main challenge in numerical simulations of moving contact line problems is that the adherence, or no-slip boundary condition leads to a non-integrable stress singularity at the contact line. In this report we perform the first steps in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-10-23 Hanna Holmgren , Gunilla Kreiss

We consider shape optimization problems subject to elliptic partial differential equations. In the context of the finite element method, the geometry to be optimized is represented by the computational mesh, and the optimization proceeds by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-12 Tommy Etling , Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza , Gerd Wachsmuth

Euler's elastica model has been extensively studied and applied to image processing tasks. However, due to the high nonlinearity and nonconvexity of the involved curvature term, conventional algorithms suffer from slow convergence and high…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Yinghui Zhang , Xiaojuan Deng , Jun Zhang , Hongwei Li

Numerical and analytical methods are developed for the investigation of contact sets in electrostatic-elastic deflections modeling micro-electro mechanical systems. The model for the membrane deflection is a fourth-order semi-linear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Kelsey L. DiPietro , Ronald D. Haynes , Weizhang Huang , Alan E. Lindsay , Yufei Yu

Efficient planning of assembly motions is a long standing challenge in the field of robotics that has been primarily tackled with reinforcement learning and sampling-based methods by using extensive physics simulations. This paper proposes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Christian Dietz , Sebastian Albrecht , Gianluca Frison , Moritz Diehl , Armin Nurkanović

Computational design optimization in fluid dynamics usually requires to solve non-linear partial differential equations numerically. In this work, we explore a Bayesian optimization approach to minimize an object's drag coefficient in…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Stephan Eismann , Stefan Bartzsch , Stefano Ermon

We provide a unifying framework for $\mathcal{L}_2$-optimal reduced-order modeling for linear time-invariant dynamical systems and stationary parametric problems. Using parameter-separable forms of the reduced-model quantities, we derive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Petar Mlinarić , Serkan Gugercin

In this paper, a shape optimization problem constrained by a random elliptic partial differential equation with a pure Neumann boundary is presented. The model is motivated by applications in interface identification, where we assume…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-02-04 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza , Kathrin Welker

We present a new framework for the simultaneous optimiziation of both the topology as well as the relative density grading of cellular structures and materials, also known as lattices. Due to manufacturing constraints, the optimization…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jonathan Stollberg , Tarun Gangwar , Oliver Weeger , Dominik Schillinger

The parametric equations of the plane curves determining the equilibrium shapes that a uniform inextensible elastic ring or tube could take subject to a uniform hydrostatic pressure are presented in an explicit analytic form. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Peter A. Djondjorov , Vassil M. Vassilev , Ivailo M. Mladenov

We consider the method of mappings for performing shape optimization for unsteady fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. In this work, we focus on the numerical implementation. We model the optimization problem such that it takes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Johannes Haubner , Michael Ulbrich