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Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Stefano Almi , Ulisse Stefanelli

We consider simple bilevel optimization problems where the goal is to compute among the optimal solutions of a composite convex optimization problem, one that minimizes a secondary objective function. Our main contribution is threefold. (i)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Sepideh Samadi , Daniel Burbano , Farzad Yousefian

Bilevel optimization enjoys a wide range of applications in emerging machine learning and signal processing problems such as hyper-parameter optimization, image reconstruction, meta-learning, adversarial training, and reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Han Shen , Quan Xiao , Tianyi Chen

Obtaining high quality particle distribution representing clean geometry in pre-processing is essential for the simulation accuracy of the particle-based methods. In this paper, several level-set based techniques for cleaning up `dirty'…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Yongchuan Yu , Yujie Zhu , Chi Zhang , Oskar J. Haidn , Xiangyu Hu

We adapt and extend a formulation for soluble surfactant transport in multiphase flows recently presented by Muradoglu & Tryggvason (JCP 274 (2014) 737-757) to the context of the Level Contour Reconstruction Method (Shin et al. IJNMF 60…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Seungwon Shin , Jalel Chergui , Damir Juric , Lyes Kahouadji , Omar K. Matar , Richard V. Craster

The Immersed Boundary Method (IBM) is one of the popular one-fluid mixed Eulerian-Lagrangian methods to simulate motion of droplets. While the treatment of a moving complex boundary is an extremely time consuming and formidable task in a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-07-30 Chia Rui Ong , Hiroaki Miura

Strongly coupled immersed boundary (IB) methods solve the nonlinear fluid and structural equations of motion simultaneously for strongly enforcing the no-slip constraint on the body. Handling this constraint requires solving several large…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-12 Nirmal Jayaprasad Nair , Andres Goza

Finite element simulations of frictional multi-body contact problems via conformal meshes can be challenging and computationally demanding. To render geometrical features, unstructured meshes must be used and this unavoidably increases the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Chuanqi Liu , Waiching Sun

3D human pose and shape recovery from a monocular RGB image is a challenging task. Existing learning based methods highly depend on weak supervision signals, e.g. 2D and 3D joint location, due to the lack of in-the-wild paired 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Zhiwei Liu , Xiangyu Zhu , Lu Yang , Xiang Yan , Ming Tang , Zhen Lei , Guibo Zhu , Xuetao Feng , Yan Wang , Jinqiao Wang

Fitting an unknown number of hyperplanes to data is a fundamental yet challenging problem in machine learning, characterized by its non-convexity, non-differentiability, and unknown model order. Existing approaches often struggle with local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Zhiqin Cheng , Yu Zhan , Mingjin Zhang , Lingbo Liu , Liang Lin

In this paper, we present a novel framework for deriving the evolution equation of the level set function in topology optimization, departing from conventional Hamilton-Jacobi based formulations. The key idea is the introduction of an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-09 Jan Oellerich , Takayuki Yamada

Including derivative information in the modelling of moving interfaces has been proposed as one method to increase the accuracy of numerical schemes with minimal additional cost. Here a new level set reinitialization technique using the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-11-30 David Salac

In this work, we consider two-stage quadratic optimization problems under ellipsoidal uncertainty. In the first stage, one needs to decide upon the values of a subset of optimization variables (control variables). In the second stage, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-05 Olga Kuryatnikova , Bissan Ghaddar , Daniel K. Molzahn

The unsteady motion of a gas-liquid interface, such as during splashing or atomization, often results in complex liquid structures embedded in the ambient fluid. Here we explore the use of skeletonization to identify the minimum amount of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-28 Xianyang Chen , Jiacai Lu , Stéphane Zaleski , Grétar Tryggvason

In this work, we propose a novel model order reduction approach for two-phase flow in porous media by introducing a formulation in which the mobility, which realizes the coupling between phase saturations and phase pressures, is regarded as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-13 Sven Kaulmann , Bernd Flemisch , Bernard Haasdonk , Knut-Andreas Lie , Mario Ohlberger

Bilevel optimization offers a methodology to learn hyperparameters in imaging inverse problems, yet its integration with automatic differentiation techniques remains challenging. On the one hand, inverse problems are typically solved by…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-17 Leo Davy , Luis M. Briceno-Arias , N. Pustelnik

In this paper a time dependent Stokes problem that is motivated by a standard sharp interface model for the fluid dynamics of two-phase flows is studied. This Stokes interface problem has discontinuous density and viscosity coefficients and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-12 Igor Voulis , Arnold Reusken

The computation of multiphase flows presents a subtle energetic equilibrium between potential (i.e., surface) and kinetic energies. The use of traditional interface-capturing schemes provides no control over such a dynamic balance. In the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 N. Valle , F. X. Trias , J. Castro

Two approaches that use a density field for seeding holes in level set topology optimization are proposed. In these approaches, the level set field describes the material-void interface while the density field describes the material…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-25 Jorge L. Barrera , Markus J. Geiss , Kurt Maute

We study some numerical methods for solving second order elliptic problem with interface. We introduce an immersed interface finite element method based on the `broken' $P_1$-nonconforming piecewise linear polynomials on interface…

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