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In robot control, planning, and learning, there is a need for rigid-body dynamics libraries that are highly performant, easy to use, and compatible with CPUs and accelerators. While existing libraries often excel at either low-latency CPU…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Daniel Morton , Marco Pavone

This paper presents a novel adjoint solver for differentiable fluid simulation based on bidirectional flow maps. Our key observation is that the forward fluid solver and its corresponding backward, adjoint solver share the same flow map as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zhiqi Li , Jinjin He , Barnabás Börcsök , Taiyuan Zhang , Duowen Chen , Tao Du , Ming C. Lin , Greg Turk , Bo Zhu

We describe an implementation of compressible inviscid fluid solvers with block-structured adaptive mesh refinement on Graphics Processing Units using NVIDIA's CUDA. We show that a class of high resolution shock capturing schemes can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Peng Wang , Tom Abel , Ralf Kaehler

Gyrokinetic simulations are essential for understanding and controlling turbulence in fusion plasmas, yet they are oftentimes implemented in legacy codebases, in many cases CPU-bound. These are both hard to maintain and especially…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Gianluca Galletti , Eric Volkmann , Johannes Brandstetter

We demonstrate a high-performance vendor-agnostic method for massively parallel solving of ensembles of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and stochastic differential equations (SDEs) on GPUs. The method is integrated with a widely used…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Utkarsh Utkarsh , Valentin Churavy , Yingbo Ma , Tim Besard , Prakitr Srisuma , Tim Gymnich , Adam R. Gerlach , Alan Edelman , George Barbastathis , Richard D. Braatz , Christopher Rackauckas

This paper introduces open-source computational fluid dynamics software named open computational fluid dynamic code for scientific computation with graphics processing unit (GPU) system (OpenCFD-SCU), developed by the authors for direct…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-21 Guanlin Dang , Shiwei Liu , Tongbiao Guo , Junyi Duan , Xinliang Li

A critical step in topology optimization (TO) is finding sensitivities. Manual derivation and implementation of the sensitivities can be quite laborious and error-prone, especially for non-trivial objectives, constraints and material…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Aaditya Chandrasekhar , Saketh Sridhara , Krishnan Suresh

We introduce JAX FDM, a differentiable solver to design mechanically efficient shapes for 3D structures conditioned on target architectural, fabrication and structural properties. Examples of such structures are domes, cable nets and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Rafael Pastrana , Deniz Oktay , Ryan P. Adams , Sigrid Adriaenssens

We present a computational method for extreme-scale simulations of incompressible turbulent wall flows at high Reynolds numbers. The numerical algorithm extends a popular method for solving second-order finite differences Poisson/Helmholtz…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-08-07 Rafael Diez Sanhueza , Jurriaan Peeters , Pedro Costa

Differentiable programming has emerged as a powerful paradigm in scientific computing, enabling automatic differentiation through simulation pipelines and naturally supporting both forward and inverse modeling. We present JAX-MPM, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Honghui Du , QiZhi He

Simulating spatiotemporal turbulence with high fidelity remains a cornerstone challenge in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) due to its intricate multiscale nature and prohibitive computational demands. Traditional approaches typically…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-01 Xiantao Fan , Deepak Akhare , Jian-Xun Wang

We present a novel, JAX-powered implementation of a parametric component-separation method for CMB polarization data, explicitly designed to handle spatially varying foreground Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs). The approach models this…

We present jf1uids, a one-dimensional fluid solver that can, by virtue of a geometric formulation of the Euler equations, model radially symmetric fluid problems in a conservative manner, i.e., without losing mass or energy. For spherical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-11-21 Leonard Storcks , Tobias Buck

Shape optimization is of great significance in structural engineering, as an efficient geometry leads to better performance of structures. However, the application of gradient-based shape optimization for structural and architectural design…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Gaoyuan Wu

Fluid simulations are often performed using the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (INSE), leading to sparse linear systems which are difficult to solve efficiently in parallel. Recently, kinetic methods based on the…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Yixin Chen , Wei Li , Rui Fan , Xiaopei Liu

The Maximum Flow (Max-Flow) problem is a cornerstone in graph theory and combinatorial optimization, aiming to determine the largest possible flow from a designated source node to a sink node within a capacitated flow network. It has…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shruthi Kannappan , Ashwina Kumar , Rupesh Nasre

In this paper, we introduce the solver ConvexFlows for the convex flow problem first defined in the authors' previous work. In this problem, we aim to optimize a concave utility function depending on the flows over a graph. However, unlike…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Theo Diamandis , Guillermo Angeris

We show feasibility and benefits of porting an adaptive multi-scale kinetic-fluid code to CPU-GPU systems. Challenges are due to the irregular data access for adaptive Cartesian mesh, vast difference of computational cost between kinetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Sergey Zabelok , Robert Arslanbekov , Vladimir Kolobov

Immersed boundary methods (IBMs) facilitate the simulation of flows around stationary, moving, and deforming bodies on Cartesian grids. However, extending these simulations to the large grid sizes required for realistic flow problems…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-16 Sushrut Kumar , Joshua Romero , Jung-Hee Seo , Massimiliano Fatica , Rajat Mittal

A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation framework for fluid-flow prediction is developed on the Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) platform. The TPU architecture is featured with accelerated dense matrix multiplication, large high…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Qing Wang , Matthias Ihme , Yi-Fan Chen , John Anderson