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Spaces where each element describes a shape, so-called shape spaces, are of particular interest in shape optimization and its applications. Theory and algorithms in shape optimization are often based on techniques from differential…

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We present an easily accessible, object oriented code (written exclusively in Matlab) for adaptive finite element simulations in 2D. It features various refinement routines for triangular meshes as well as fully vectorized FEM ansatz spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Michael Innerberger , Dirk Praetorius

Achieving accurate numerical results of hydrodynamic loads based on the potential-flow theory is very challenging for structures with sharp edges, due to the singular behavior of the local-flow velocities. In this paper, we introduce the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-09-23 Ying Wang , Yanlin Shao , Jikang Chen , Hui Liang

This paper summarizes the development of mVEM, a MATLAB software package containing efficient and easy-following codes for various virtual element methods (VEMs) published in the literature. We explain in detail the numerical implementation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Yue Yu

An important step in shape optimization with partial differential equation constraints is to adapt the geometry during each optimization iteration. Common strategies are to employ mesh-deformation or re-meshing, where one or the other…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-27 Jorgen S. Dokken , Simon W. Funke , August Johansson , Stephan Schmidt

An automated framework is presented for the numerical solution of optimal control problems with PDEs as constraints, in both the stationary and instationary settings. The associated code can solve both linear and non-linear problems, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Santolo Leveque , James R. Maddison , John W. Pearson

In this paper we develop automatic shape differentiation techniques for unfitted discretisations and link these to recent advances in shape calculus for unfitted methods. We extend existing analytic shape calculus results to the case where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Zachary J. Wegert , Jordi Manyer , Connor Mallon , Santiago Badia , Vivien J. Challis

In this paper we study an abstract framework for computing shape derivatives of functionals subject to PDE constraints. We revisit the Lagrangian approach using the implicit function theorem in an abstract setting tailored for applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Antoine Laurain , Pedro T. P. Lopes , Jean C. Nakasato

The objective of this study is to establish a gradient-free topology optimization framework that facilitates more global solution searches to avoid entrapping in undesirable local optima, especially in problems with strong non-linearity.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-07 Hiroki Kawabe , Kentaro Yaji , Yuichiro Aoki

Behavioral models are incredibly useful for understanding and validating software. However, the automatic extraction of such models from actual industrial code remains a largely unsolved problem with current solutions often not scaling well…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-20 P. H. M. van Spaendonck

While topological derivatives have proven useful in applications of topology optimisation and inverse problems, their mathematically rigorous derivation remains an ongoing research topic, in particular in the context of nonlinear partial…

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This work introduces ParAMS -- a versatile Python package that aims to make parameterization workflows in computational chemistry and physics more accessible, transparent and reproducible. We demonstrate how ParAMS facilitates the parameter…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Leonid Komissarov , Robert Rüger , Matti Hellström , Toon Verstraelen

Accurate numerical simulations of interaction between fluid and solid play an important role in applications. The task is challenging in practical scenarios as the media are usually highly heterogeneous with very large contrast. To overcome…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-05-15 Xia Wang , Eric Chung , Shubin Fu , Zhaoqin Huang

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on complex domains can present significant computational challenges. The Diffuse Domain Method (DDM) is an alternative that reformulates the partial differential equations on a larger, simpler…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Luke Benfield , Andreas Dedner

In the context of the optimization of rotating electric machines, many different objective functions are of interest and considering this during the optimization is of crucial importance. While evolutionary algorithms can provide a Pareto…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-19 Alessio Cesarano , Peter Gangl

The urgency of the energy transition requires improving the performance and longevity of hydrogen technologies. AlphaPEM is a dynamic one-dimensional (1D) physics-based PEM fuel cell system simulator, programmed in Python and experimentally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Raphaël Gass , Zhongliang Li , Rachid Outbib , Samir Jemeï , Daniel Hissel

A large part of modern machine learning theory often involves computing the high-dimensional expected trace of a rational expression of large rectangular random matrices. To symbolically compute such quantities using free probability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Arjun Subramonian , Elvis Dohmatob

Recent advances in LLM-guided evolutionary computation, particularly AlphaEvolve, have demonstrated remarkable success in discovering novel mathematical constructions and solving challenging optimization problems. In this article, we…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Alexey Kravatskiy , Valentin Khrulkov , Ivan Oseledets

Optimization on manifolds is a class of methods for optimization of an objective function, subject to constraints which are smooth, in the sense that the set of points which satisfy the constraints admits the structure of a differentiable…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2020-09-03 James Townsend , Niklas Koep , Sebastian Weichwald