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In this paper we study a model for traffic flow on networks based on a hyperbolic system of conservation laws with discontinuous flux. Each equation describes the density evolution of vehicles having a common path along the network. In this…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-17 Maya Briani , Emiliano Cristiani

We numerically investigate the flow structure of periodic steady water waves of fixed relative mass flux propagating on rotational flows with piece-wise constant vorticity. We show that for wave solutions along the global bifurcation…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-11-25 Lin Chen , Biswajit Basu , Calin-I Martin

We study distributed network flows as solvers in continuous time for the linear algebraic equation $\mathbf{z}=\mathbf{H}\mathbf{y}$. Each node $i$ has access to a row $\mathbf{h}_i^{\rm T}$ of the matrix $\mathbf{H}$ and the corresponding…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Guodong Shi , Brian D. O. Anderson , U. Helmke

We use fluid limits to explore the (in)stability properties of wireless networks with queue-based random-access algorithms. Queue-based random-access schemes are simple and inherently distributed in nature, yet provide the capability to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Javad Ghaderi , Sem Borst , Phil Whiting

We introduce a new approach to computing an approximately maximum s-t flow in a capacitated, undirected graph. This flow is computed by solving a sequence of electrical flow problems. Each electrical flow is given by the solution of a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-10-20 Paul Christiano , Jonathan A. Kelner , Aleksander Madry , Daniel A. Spielman , Shang-Hua Teng

We present a new flow framework for separation logic reasoning about programs that manipulate general graphs. The framework overcomes problems in earlier developments: it is based on standard fixed point theory, guarantees least flows,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Roland Meyer , Thomas Wies , Sebastian Wolff

Resilience has become a key aspect in the design of contemporary infrastructure networks. This comes as a result of ever-increasing loads, limited physical capacity, and fast-growing levels of interconnectedness and complexity due to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Giacomo Como

A fully (pseudo-)spectral solver for direct numerical simulations of large-scale turbulent channel flows is described. The solver utilizes the Chebyshev base functions suggested by J. Shen [SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 16, 1, 1995], that lead to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Mikael Mortensen

We consider an optimal flow distribution problem in which the goal is to find a radial configuration that minimizes resistance-induced quadratic distribution costs while ensuring delivery of inputs from multiple sources to all sinks to meet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Joan Vendrell , Russell Bent , Solmaz Kia

A model for traffic flow in street networks or material flows in supply networks is presented, that takes into account the conservation of cars or materials and other significant features of traffic flows such as jam formation, spillovers,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-08-14 Dirk Helbing , Jan Siegmeier , Stefan Lämmer

This two-part paper details a theory of solvability for the power flow equations in lossless power networks. In Part I, we derive a new formulation of the lossless power flow equations, which we term the fixed-point power flow. The model is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-09-21 John W. Simpson-Porco

A semi-streaming algorithm in dynamic graph streams processes any $n$-vertex graph by making one or multiple passes over a stream of insertions and deletions to edges of the graph and using $O(n \cdot \mbox{polylog}(n))$ space.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Sepehr Assadi , Soheil Behnezhad , Christian Konrad , Kheeran K. Naidu , Janani Sundaresan

In the semi-streaming model, an algorithm must process any $n$-vertex graph by making one or few passes over a stream of its edges, use $O(n \cdot \text{polylog }n)$ words of space, and at the end of the last pass, output a solution to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Sepehr Assadi , Gary Hoppenworth , Janani Sundaresan

In this paper, we study robust transshipment under consistent flow constraints. We consider demand uncertainty represented by a finite set of scenarios and characterize a subset of arcs as so-called fixed arcs. In each scenario, we require…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Christina Büsing , Arie M. C. A Koster , Sabrina Schmitz

Many applications of computational fluid dynamics require multiple simulations of a flow under different input conditions. In this paper, a numerical algorithm is developed to efficiently determine a set of such simulations in which the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-29 Max Gunzburger , Nan Jiang , Zhu Wang

Generative models based on flow matching have emerged as a powerful paradigm for inverse problems, offering straighter trajectories and faster sampling compared to diffusion models. However, existing approaches often necessitate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Zehua Jiang , Fenghao Zhu , Xinquan Wang , Chongwen Huang , Zhaoyang Zhang

The aim of this paper is a short survey of models and methods that developed by the authors. These models and methods are used to optimize general networks with nonlinear non-convex restrictions and objectives possessing mixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Emmanuel M. Livshits , Leonid A. Ostromuhov

We present efficient deep learning techniques for approximating flow and transport equations for both single phase and two-phase flow problems. The proposed methods take advantages of the sparsity structures in the underlying discrete…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-08 Yating Wang , Guang Lin

The paper investigates the throughput behavior of single-commodity dynamical flow networks governed by monotone distributed routing policies. The networks are modeled as systems of ODEs based on mass conversation laws on directed graphs…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-08 Giacomo Como , Enrico Lovisari , Ketan Savla

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) learn to sample states proportional to an unnormalized reward. Despite their theoretical promise, practical training is often unstable, exhibiting severe loss spikes and mode collapse. To tackle this, we…