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Meshing complex engineering domains is a challenging task. Arbitrary polyhedral meshes can provide the much needed flexibility in automated discretization of such domains. The geometric property of the polyhedral meshes such as the…

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This work investigates an elliptic optimal control problem defined on uncertain domains and discretized by a fictitious domain finite element method and cut elements. Key ingredients of the study are to manage cases considering the usually…

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We develop adaptive discretization algorithms for locally optimal experimental design of nonlinear prediction models. With these algorithms, we refine and improve a pertinent state-of-the-art algorithm in various respects. We establish…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Jochen Schmid , Philipp Seufert , Michael Bortz

We develop a density based topology optimization method for linear elasticity based on the cut finite element method. More precisely, the design domain is discretized using cut finite elements which allow complicated geometry to be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Erik Burman , Daniel Elfverson , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson

Multiscale topology optimization (M-TO) entails generating an optimal global topology, and an optimal set of microstructures at a smaller scale, for a physics-constrained problem. With the advent of additive manufacturing, M-TO has gained…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Saketh Sridhara , Krishnan Suresh

This work is concerned with optimal control of partial differential equations where the control enters the state equation as a coefficient and should take on values only from a given discrete set of values corresponding to available…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-02-27 Christian Clason , Karl Kunisch

The Finite element method (FEM) has long served as the computational backbone for topology optimization (TO). However, for designing structures undergoing large deformations, conventional FEM-based TO often exhibits numerical instabilities…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Rahul Kumar Padhy , Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Krishnan Suresh

In this paper, we present a topology optimization (TO) framework to simultaneously optimize the matrix topology and fiber distribution of functionally graded continuous fiber-reinforced composites (FRC). Current approaches in density-based…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Amir Mirzendehdel , Morad Behandish , Krishnan Suresh

Projection based model order reduction has become a mature technique for simulation of large classes of parameterized systems. However, several challenges remain for problems where the solution manifold of the parameterized system cannot be…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Tim Keil , Mario Ohlberger

In this article a topology optimization method is developed, which is aware of material uncertainties. The uncertainties are handled in a worst-case sense, i.e. the worst possible material distribution over a given uncertainty set is taken…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-13 Jannis Greifenstein , Michael Stingl

This study presents an extension of multiscale topology optimization by integrating both yield stress and local/global buckling considerations into the design process. Building upon established multiscale methodologies, we develop a new…

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This study introduces a novel computational framework for Robust Topology Optimization (RTO) considering imprecise random field parameters. Unlike the worst-case approach, the present method provides upper and lower bounds for the mean and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Kang Gao , Duy Minh Doc , Sheng Chu , Gang Wu , H. Alicia Kim , Carol A. Featherston

In this contribution we propose and rigorously analyze new variants of adaptive Trust-Region methods for parameter optimization with PDE constraints and bilateral parameter constraints. The approach employs successively enriched Reduced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-22 Tim Keil , Luca Mechelli , Mario Ohlberger , Felix Schindler , Stefan Volkwein

Topology optimization (TO) is a common technique used in free-form designs. However, conventional TO-based design approaches suffer from high computational cost due to the need for repetitive forward calculations and/or sensitivity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Chao Qian , Wenjing Ye

Multi-sector capacity expansion models play a crucial role in energy planning by providing decision support for policymaking in technology development. To ensure reliable support, these models require high technological, spatial, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-14 Federico Parolin , Yu Weng , Paolo Colbertaldo , Ruaridh Macdonald

We consider the optimal control problem of a general nonlinear spatio-temporal system described by Partial Differential Equations (PDEs). Theory and algorithms for control of spatio-temporal systems are of rising interest among the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-12 Ethan N. Evans , Oswin So , Andrew P. Kendall , Guan-Horng Liu , Evangelos A. Theodorou

We propose a new model-order reduction framework to poorly reducible problems arising from parametric partial differential equations with geometric variability. In such problems, the solution manifold exhibits a slowly decaying Kolmogorov…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Abbas Kabalan , Fabien Casenave , Felipe Bordeu , Virginie Ehrlacher , Alexandre Ern

Wide variety of engineering design tasks can be formulated as constrained optimization problems where the shape and topology of the domain are optimized to reduce costs while satisfying certain constraints. Several mathematical approaches…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-10 Igor Ostanin , Denis Zorin , Ivan Oseledets

We present an $hr$-adaptivity framework for optimization of high-order meshes. This work extends the $r$-adaptivity method for mesh optimization by Dobrev et al., where we utilized the Target-Matrix Optimization Paradigm (TMOP) to minimize…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-25 Veselin Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov