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These lecture notes summarize various summer schools that I have given on the topic of solving inverse problems (state and parameter estimation) by combining optimally measurement observations and parametrized PDE models. After defining a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Olga Mula

In this paper, we present a practical algorithm based on sparsity regularization to effectively solve nonlinear dynamic inverse problems that are encountered in subsurface model calibration. We use an iteratively reweighted algorithm that…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2009-11-13 Lianlin Li , B. Jafarpour

Numerical simulations of turbulence provide non-intrusive access to all the resolved scales, although they often invoke idealizations that can compromise realism. In contrast, experimental measurements probe the true flow with lesser…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-09-22 Tamer A. Zaki , Mengze Wang

Accurate representation of large-scale flow patterns in low-resolution ocean simulations is one of the most challenging problems in ocean modelling. The main difficulty is to correctly reproduce effects of unresolved small scales on the…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Igor Shevchenko , Pavel Berloff

In this paper, we consider the inverse problem of determining the permeability of the subsurface from hydraulic head measurements, within the framework of a steady Darcy model of groundwater flow. We study geometrically defined prior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2015-06-18 Marco A. Iglesias , Kui Lin , Andrew M. Stuart

We consider the inverse problem of reconstructing an unknown function $u$ from a finite set of measurements, under the assumption that $u$ is the trajectory of a transport-dominated problem with unknown input parameters. We propose an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Olga Mula , Cecilia Pagliantini , Federico Vismara

In this paper we study the problem of recovering a low-rank matrix from linear measurements. Our algorithm, which we call Procrustes Flow, starts from an initial estimate obtained by a thresholding scheme followed by gradient descent on a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-02-08 Stephen Tu , Ross Boczar , Max Simchowitz , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Benjamin Recht

We describe a novel framework for estimating subsurface properties, such as rock permeability and porosity, from time-lapse observed seismic data by coupling full-waveform inversion, subsurface flow processes, and rock physics models. For…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-05-06 Dongzhuo Li , Kailai Xu , Jerry M. Harris , Eric Darve

Floods are one of the most common and devastating natural disasters worldwide. The contribution of remote sensing is important for reducing the impact of flooding both during the event itself and for improving hydrodynamic models by…

Shape optimization with constraints given by partial differential equations (PDE) is a highly developed field of optimization theory. The elegant adjoint formalism allows to compute shape gradients at the computational cost of a further PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Matthias Bolten , Onur Tanil Doganay , Hanno Gottschalk , Kathrin Klamroth

This article is concerned with the reconstruction of obstacle $\O$ immersed in a fluid flowing in a bounded domain $\Omega$ in the two dimensional case. We assume that the fluid motion is governed by the Stokes-Brinkmann equations. We make…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Mourad Hrizi , Rakia Malek , Maatoug Hassine

We propose a fast, stable, and direct analytic method to detect underwater channel topography from surface wave measurements, based on one-dimensional shallow water equations. The technique requires knowledge of the free surface and its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Lamsahel Noureddine , Carole Rosier

In this paper we introduce a semi-analytical model for bathymetry, water turbidity and bottom composition; which is primarily based on the physics-based model, HOPE, of Lee et al. Unlike the model of Lee, which was originally designed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Sam Blake

In this paper we focus on the water waves problem for uneven bottoms on a two-dimensionnal domain. Starting from the symmetric Boussinesq systems derived in [Chazel, Influence of topography on long water waves, 2007], we recover the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-02-02 Florent Chazel

Partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization problems such as seismic full waveform inversion (FWI) frequently arise in the geoscience and related fields. For such problems, many observations are usually gathered by multiple…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-05-04 Kamal Aghazade , Hossein S. Aghamiry , Ali Gholami , Stephane Operto

We propose and compare methods for the analysis of extreme events in complex systems governed by PDEs that involve random parameters, in situations where we are interested in quantifying the probability that a scalar function of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Shanyin Tong , Eric Vanden-Eijnden , Georg Stadler

In seismic waveform inversion, the reconstruction of the subsurface properties is usually carried out using approximative wave propagation models to ensure computational efficiency. The viscoelastic nature of the subsurface is often…

Geophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Kenneth Muhumuza , Lassi Roininen , Janne M. J. Huttunen , Timo Lähivaara

The ocean interior regulates Earth's climate but remains sparsely observed due to limited in situ measurements, while satellite observations are restricted to the surface. We present a depth-aware generative framework for reconstructing…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Niloofar Asefi , Tianning Wu , Ruoying He , Ashesh Chattopadhyay

In the remote state estimation problem, an observer tries to reconstruct the state of a dynamical system at a remote location, where no direct sensor measurements are available. The observer only has access to information sent through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Christoph Kawan , Sigurdur Hafstein , Peter Giesl

This paper considers the reconstruction of a defect in a two-dimensional waveguide during non-destructive ultrasonic inspection using a derivative-based optimization approach. The propagation of the mechanical waves is simulated by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-07 Jannis Bulling , Benjamin Jurgelucks , Jens Prager , Andrea Walther