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Topology optimization of microstructures plays a critical role in optimizing functional performance across diverse engineering applications. While metamaterials with enhanced mechanical properties -- such as hyperelasticity, energy…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-01-27 Weiming Wang , Yanhao Hou , Renbo Su , Weiguang Wang , Charlie C. L. Wang

As modern electronic devices are increasingly miniaturized and integrated, their performance relies more heavily on effective thermal management. Two-phase cooling methods enhanced by porous surfaces, which capitalize on thin-film…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jonathan Tammer Eweis-LaBolle , Chuanning Zhao , Yoonjin Won , Ramin Bostanabad

This paper presents a multicomponent topology optimization method for designing structures assembled from additively-manufactured components, considering anisotropic material behavior for each component due to its build orientation,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Yuqing Zhou , Tsuyoshi Nomura , Kazuhiro Saitou

The use of topology optimization methods for the design of electric machines has become increasingly popular over the past years. Due to a desired increase in power density and a recent trend to high speed machines, thermal aspects play a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-01 Peter Gangl , Nepomuk Krenn , Herbert De Gersem

We describe a framework for controlling and improving the quality of high-order finite element meshes based on extensions of the Target-Matrix Optimization Paradigm (TMOP) of Knupp. This approach allows high-order applications to have a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Veselin Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

Multi-task learning solves multiple correlated tasks. However, conflicts may exist between them. In such circumstances, a single solution can rarely optimize all the tasks, leading to performance trade-offs. To arrive at a set of optimized…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lu Bai , Abhishek Gupta , Yew-Soon Ong

This paper tackles the multi-objective optimization of the cost functional of a path-following model predictive control for vehicle longitudinal and lateral control. While the inherent optimal character of the model predictive control and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-09 Ali Gharib , David Stenger , Robert Ritschel , Rick Voßwinkel

Multi-objective optimization studies the process of seeking multiple competing desiderata in some operation. Solution techniques highlight marginal tradeoffs associated with weighing one objective over others. In this paper, we consider…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-05 Allahkaram Shafiei , Jakub Marecek

Solving many-objective problems (MaOPs) is still a significant challenge in the multi-objective optimization (MOO) field. One way to measure algorithm performance is through the use of benchmark functions (also called test functions or test…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Ivan Reinaldo Meneghini , Marcos Antonio Alves , António Gaspar-Cunha , Frederico Gadelha Guimarães

Optical metasurfaces are planar arrangements of subwavelength meta-atoms that implement a wide range of transformations on incident light. The design of efficient metasurfaces requires that the responses of and interactions among meta-atoms…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-19 Mahdad Mansouree , Andrew McClung , Sarath Samudrala , Amir Arbabi

To date, the multi-objective optimization literature has mainly focused on conflicting objectives, studying the Pareto front, or requiring users to balance tradeoffs. Yet, in machine learning practice, there are many scenarios where such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Yonathan Efroni , Ben Kretzu , Daniel Jiang , Jalaj Bhandari , Zheqing , Zhu , Karen Ullrich

The fitting of physical models is often done only using a single target observable. However, when multiple targets are considered, the fitting procedure becomes cumbersome, there being no easy way to quantify the robustness of the model for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández , Chern Chuang , Paul Brumer

Directed assembly of block polymers is rapidly becoming a viable strategy for lithographic patterning of nanoscopic features. One of the key attributes of directed assembly is that an underlying chemical or topographic substrate pattern…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-08-06 Jian Qin , Gurdaman S. Khaira , Yongrui Su , Grant P. Garner , Marc Miskin , Heinrich M. Jaeger , Juan J. de Pablo

Experiments have reached a monumental capacity for designing and synthesizing microscopic particles for self-assembly, making it possible to precisely control particle concentrations, shapes, and interactions. However, more physical insight…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-19 Maximilian C. Hübl , Thomas E. Videbæk , Daichi Hayakawa , W. Benjamin Rogers , Carl P. Goodrich

Multi-objective optimization has burgeoned as a potent methodology for informed decision-making in enhanced geothermal systems, aiming to concurrently maximize economic yield, ensure enduring geothermal energy provision, and curtail carbon…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Guodong Chen , Jiu Jimmy Jiao , Qiqi Liu , Zhongzheng Wang , Yaochu Jin

Progresses in additive manufacturing technologies allow the realization of finely graded microstructured materials with tunable mechanical properties. This paves the way to a wealth of innovative applications, calling for the combined…

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

This paper studies optimal motion planning subject to motion and environment uncertainties. By modeling the system as a probabilistic labeled Markov decision process (PL-MDP), the control objective is to synthesize a finite-memory policy,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Mingyu Cai , Shaoping Xiao , Zhijun Li , Zhen Kan

Multi-objective parametric optimization problem is presented for overwrapped composite pressure vessels under internal pressure for storage and heating water. It is solved using the developed iterative optimization algorithm. Optimal values…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Lyudmyla Rozova , Bilal Meemary , Salim Chaki , Mylène Deléglise-Lagardère , Dmytro Vasiukov

Optimization has found numerous applications in engineering, particularly since 1960s. Many optimization applications in engineering have more than one objective (or performance criterion). Such applications require multi-objective (or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Zhiyuan Wang , Seyed Reza Nabavi , Gade Pandu Rangaiah

We propose a novel numerical approach to compute the Pareto front in multivariate polynomial multi-objective optimization problems. When the objective functions and (equality) constraints are multivariate polynomials, the Pareto front,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-06 Hans van Rooij , Christof Vermeersch , Marie Deferme , Bart De Moor