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Adjoint methods have gained popularity in recent years for driving adaptation procedures which aim to reduce error in solution functionals. While adjoint methods have been proven effective for functional-based adaptation, the practical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-09 William C. Tyson , Christopher J. Roy

In this work, we implement goal-oriented error control and spatial mesh adaptivity for stationary fluid-structure interaction. The a posteriori error estimator is realized using the dual-weighted residual method in which the adjoint…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-25 Thomas Wick

The design space of dynamic multibody systems (MBSs), particularly those with flexible components, is considerably large. Consequently, having a means to efficiently explore this space and find the optimum solution within a feasible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-08 Mehran Ebrahimi , Adrian Butscher , Hyunmin Cheong , Francesco Iorio

This paper concerns the Time-Domain Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) for dispersive and dissipative poroelastic materials. The forward problem is an initial boundary value problem (IBVP) of the poroelastic equations with a memory term; the FWI…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Miao-jung Yvonne Ou , Petr Plecháč , Jiangming Xie

Adjoint methods have been the pillar of gradient-based optimization for decades. They enable the accurate computation of a gradient (sensitivity) of a quantity of interest with respect to all system's parameters in one calculation. When the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-12 Defne E. Ozan , Luca Magri

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of identifying the initial data in a fractionally damped wave equation from time trace measurements on a surface, as relevant in photoacoustic or thermoacoustic tomography. We derive and analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Anna Schlintl

Hydraulic fracturing increases reservoir permeability by opening fractures and triggering slip on natural fractures and faults. While seismic slip of small faults or fault patches is detectable as microseismic events, the role of aseismic…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-02-24 Ali Kashefi , Eric M. Dunham , Benjamin Grossman-Ponemon , Adrian J. Lew

Many control applications can be formulated as optimization constrained by conservation laws. Such optimization can be efficiently solved by gradient-based methods, where the gradient is obtained through the adjoint method. Traditionally,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-11 Han Chen , Qiqi Wang

A theoretical platform is developed for active elastic-wave sensing of (stationary and advancing) fractures along bi-material interfaces in layered composites. Damaged contact surfaces are characterized by a heterogeneous distribution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Fatemeh Pourahmadian , Irene de Teresa

Verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) have become a common practice in thermal-hydraulics analysis. An important step in the uncertainty analysis is the sensitivity analysis of various uncertain input parameters.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Guojun Hu , Tomasz Kozlowski

Reward fine-tuning has become a common approach for aligning pretrained diffusion and flow models with human preferences in text-to-image generation. Among reward-gradient-based methods, Adjoint Matching (AM) provides a principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jeongwoo Shin , Dongsoo Shin , Yuchen Zhu , Wei Guo , Yongxin Chen , Joonseok Lee , Jaewoong Choi , Jaemoo Choi

Many engineering applications can be formulated as optimizations constrained by conservation laws. Such optimizations can be efficiently solved by the adjoint method, which computes the gradient of the objective to the design variables.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-24 Han Chen , Qiqi Wang

Physics-informed Machine Learning has recently become attractive for learning physical parameters and features from simulation and observation data. However, most existing methods do not ensure that the physics, such as balance laws (e.g.,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-10 Satish Karra , Bulbul Ahmmed , Maruti K. Mudunuru

A continuous system of moment equations is introduced that models the transverse dynamics of a beam of charged particles as it passes through an arbitrary lattice of quadrupoles and solenoids in the presence of self-fields. Then, figures of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 L. Dovlatyan , B. L. Beaudoin , S. Bernal , I. Haber , D. Sutter , T. M. Antonsen

Dynamic optimization is currently limited by sensitivity computations that require information from full forward and adjoint wave fields. Since the forward and adjoint solutions are computed in opposing time directions, the forward solution…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Leon Herrmann , Tim Bürchner , László Kudela , Stefan Kollmannsberger

Gradient-based inverse design in photonics has already achieved remarkable results in designing small-footprint, high-performance optical devices. The adjoint variable method, which allows for the efficient computation of gradients, has…

We derive an efficient stochastic algorithm for inverse problems that present an unknown linear forcing term and a set of nonlinear parameters to be recovered. It is assumed that the data is noisy and that the linear part of the problem is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Darko Volkov

With this contribution, we shed light on the relation between the discrete adjoints of multistep backward differentiation formula (BDF) methods and the solution of the adjoint differential equation. To this end, we develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Dörte Beigel , Mario S. Mommer , Leonard Wirsching , Hans Georg Bock

Direct methods for the simulation of optimal control problems apply a specific discretization to the dynamics of the problem, and the discrete adjoint method is suitable to calculate corresponding conditions to approximate an optimal…

This paper presents a research devoted to the study of instability phenomena in non-linear model with a constant brake friction coefficient. This paper outlines the stability analysis and a procedure to reduce and simplify the non-linear…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-09-28 Jean-Jacques Sinou , Fabrice Thouverez , Louis Jezequel