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A novel finite element framework is proposed for the numerical simulation of two phase flows with surface tension. The Level-Set (LS) method with piece-wise quadratic (P2) interpolation for the liquid-gas interface is used in order to reach…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Modesar Shakoor , Chung Hae Park

The capability to simulate a hydraulic fracturing process is an essential tool that can be used to optimize treatment design and increase the efficiency of field operations. In most practical cases, hydraulic fractures propagate in a…

Geophysics · Physics 2023-05-24 A. V. Valov , E. V. Dontsov , A. N. Baykin , S. V. Golovin

We consider the problem of heat conduction with phase change, that is essential for permafrost modeling in Land Surface Models and Dynamic Global Vegetation Models. These models require minimal computational effort and an extremely robust…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-04 David Hötten , Jenny Niebsch , Ronny Ramlau , Walter Zulehner

This paper advances the use of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) architectures to address moving interface problems via the level set method. Originally developed for other PDE-based problems, we particularly leverage PirateNet's…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Mathieu Mullins , Hamza Kamil , Adil Fahsi , Azzeddine Soulaimani

We propose a novel level set-based topology optimization for micropolar solids subjected to thermo-mechanical loading. To capture the size effects, we have incorporated the microstructural length-scale information into the level set-based…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Mayank Shekhar , Ayyappan Unnikrishna Pillai , Subhayan De , Mohammad Masiur Rahaman

In this paper we formulate a Stefan problem appropriate when the thermophysical properties are distinct in each phase and the phase-change temperature is size or velocity dependent. Thermophysical properties invariably take different values…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-04-12 Timothy G. Myers , Matthew G. Hennessy , Marc Calvo-Schwarzwälder

Recent efforts to accelerate first-order methods have focused on convex optimization problems that satisfy a geometric property known as error-bound condition, which covers a broad class of problems, including piece-wise linear programs and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Qihang Lin , Negar Soheili , Runchao Ma , Selvaprabu Nadarajah

Stochastic nested optimization, including stochastic compositional, min-max and bilevel optimization, is gaining popularity in many machine learning applications. While the three problems share the nested structure, existing works often…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-28 Tianyi Chen , Yuejiao Sun , Wotao Yin

Many tasks in machine learning and signal processing can be solved by minimizing a convex function of a measure. This includes sparse spikes deconvolution or training a neural network with a single hidden layer. For these problems, we study…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Lenaic Chizat , Francis Bach

Despite prior advances in PINNs, significant challenges remain in localized solid mechanics problems because of the limitations of single network formulations in simultaneous resolution of smooth global responses and near-tip singularities,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Zhihong Lai , Luyang Zhao , Qian Shao

(Stochastic) bilevel optimization is a frequently encountered problem in machine learning with a wide range of applications such as meta-learning, hyper-parameter optimization, and reinforcement learning. Most of the existing studies on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Meng Ding , Mingxi Lei , Yunwen Lei , Di Wang , Jinhui Xu

We extend thresholding methods for numerical realization of mean curvature flow on obstacles to the anisotropic setting where interfacial energy depends on the orientation of the interface. This type of schemes treats the interface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Siddharth Gavhale , Karel Svadlenka

At elevated temperature environments, elastic structures experience a change of the stress-free state of the body that can strongly influence the optimal topology of the structure. This work presents level-set based topology optimization of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Hayoung Chung , Oded Amir , H. Alicia Kim

Modern pendant drop tensiometry relies on numerical solution of the Young-Laplace equation and allow to determine the surface tension from a single picture of a pendant drop with high precision. Most of these techniques solve the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-11 Felix Kratz , Jan Kierfeld

Time-dependent flow fields are typically generated by a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method, which is an extremely time-consuming process. However, the latent relationship between the flow fields is governed by the Navier-Stokes…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-04-11 Heming Bai , Zhicheng Wang , Xuesen Chu , Jian Deng , Xin Bian

Purpose: Lung nodule segmentation, i.e., the algorithmic delineation of the lung nodule surface, is a fundamental component of computational nodule analysis pipelines. We propose a new method for segmentation that is a machine learning…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-20 Matthew C Hancock , Jerry F Magnan

Deep neural networks need a big amount of training data, while in the real world there is a scarcity of data available for training purposes. To resolve this issue unsupervised methods are used for training with limited data. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sayed Hashim , Muhammad Ali

In this paper, a novel stochastic extra-step quasi-Newton method is developed to solve a class of nonsmooth nonconvex composite optimization problems. We assume that the gradient of the smooth part of the objective function can only be…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Minghan Yang , Andre Milzarek , Zaiwen Wen , Tong Zhang

We consider a family of multi-phase Stefan problems for a certain 1-d model of cell-to-cell adhesion and diffusion, which takes the form of a nonlinear forward-backward parabolic equation. In each material phase the cell density stays…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-08-04 K. Anguige

We introduce a framework for the design of finite element methods for two-dimensional moving boundary problems with prescribed boundary evolution that have arbitrarily high order of accuracy, both in space and in time. At the core of our…

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