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Motivated by potential applications in power systems, we study a problem of optimizing a sum of $n$ convex functions on dynamic networks of $n$ nodes when each function is known to only a single node. The nodes' variables, while satisfy…

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This paper describes the main features of a pioneering unsteady solver for simulating ideal two-fluid plasmas on unstructured grids, taking profit of GPGPU (General-purpose computing on graphics processing units). The code, which has been…

Optimal power flow (OPF) is a key problem in power system operations. OPF problems that use the nonlinear AC power flow equations to accurately model the network physics have inherent challenges associated with non-convexity. To address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Mohammad Rasoul Narimani , Daniel K. Molzahn , Mariesa L. Crow

This letter presents a novel non-iterative power flow solution for radial distribution systems. In the pursuit of a linear power flow solution that seamlessly integrates into other power system operations, an approximate solution via…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Ibrahim Habiballah , Wasiu Sulaimon , Fahad Al-Ismail

Efficient simulation of the Navier-Stokes equations for fluid flow is a long standing problem in applied mathematics, for which state-of-the-art methods require large compute resources. In this work, we propose a data-driven approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jonathan Tompson , Kristofer Schlachter , Pablo Sprechmann , Ken Perlin

We present a massively parallel solver that accelerates DC loadflow computations for power grid topology optimization tasks. Our approach leverages low-rank updates of the Power Transfer Distribution Factors (PTDFs) to represent substation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-30 Nico Westerbeck , Joost van Dijk , Jan Viebahn , Christian Merz , Dirk Witthaut

In this work, we focus on separable convex optimization problems with box constraints and a set of triangular linear constraints. The solution is given in closed-form as a function of some Lagrange multipliers that can be computed through…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-22 Antonio A. D'Amico , Luca Sanguinetti , Daniel P. Palomar

We develop efficient algorithms for a fundamental network design problem arising in potential-based flow models, which are central to many energy transport networks (e.g., hydrogen and electricity). In contrast to classical network flow…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Max Klimm , Marc E. Pfetsch , Martin Skutella , Lea Strubberg

The power flow equations, which relate power injections and voltage phasors, are at the heart of many electric power system computations. While Newton-based methods typically find the "high-voltage" solution to the power flow equations,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Daniel K Molzahn , Dhagash Mehta , Matthew Niemerg

We are interested in the gradient flow of a general first order convex functional with respect to the $L^1$-topology. By means of an implicit minimization scheme, we show existence of a global limit solution, which satisfies an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Antonin Chambolle , Matteo Novaga

We study dual-based algorithms for distributed convex optimization problems over networks, where the objective is to minimize a sum $\sum_{i=1}^{m}f_i(z)$ of functions over in a network. We provide complexity bounds for four different…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-17 César A. Uribe , Soomin Lee , Alexander Gasnikov , Angelia Nedić

This paper introduces a novel theoretical framework and a suite of highly efficient, parallelizable algorithms for solving the large-scale multicommodity flow (MCF) feasibility problem. We reframe the classical constraint-satisfaction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Pengfei Liu

We investigate the time-complexity of the All-Pairs Max-Flow problem: Given a graph with $n$ nodes and $m$ edges, compute for all pairs of nodes the maximum-flow value between them. If Max-Flow (the version with a given source-sink pair…

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This project aims to advance differentiable fluid dynamics for hypersonic coupled flow over porous media, demonstrating the potential of automatic differentiation (AD)-based optimization for end-to-end solutions. Leveraging AD efficiently…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-07-01 Wenkang Wang , Xuanwei Zhang , Deniz Bezgin , Aaron Buhendwa , Xu Chu , Bernhard Weigand

Many problems in power systems involve optimizing a certain objective function subject to power flow equations and engineering constraints. A long-standing challenge in solving them is the nonconvexity of their feasible sets. In this paper,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Ling Zhang , Daniel Tabas , Baosen Zhang

Increasing concerns on the security and quality of water distribution systems (WDS), call for computational tools with performance guarantees. To this end, this work revisits the physical laws governing water flow and provides a hierarchy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Manish K. Singh , Vassilis Kekatos

Bach et al. [1] recently presented an algorithm for constructing confluent drawings, by leveraging power graph decomposition to generate an auxiliary routing graph. We identify two issues with their method which we call the node split and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Jonathan X. Zheng , Samraat Pawar , Dan F. M. Goodman

We propose a hidden convexity-based method to address distributed optimal energy flow (OEF) problems for transmission-level integrated electricity-gas systems. First, we develop a node-wise decoupling method to de-compose an OEF problem…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Rong-Peng Liu , Yue Song , Junhong Liu , Xiaozhe Wang , Jinpeng Guo , Yunhe Hou

Optimal transport (OT) theory provides a principled framework for modeling mass movement in applications such as mobility, logistics, and economics. Classical formulations, however, generally ignore capacity limits that are intrinsic in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Anqi Dong , Karl Henrik Johansson , Johan Karlsson

Finding a suitable layout represents a crucial task for diverse applications in graphic design. Motivated by simpler and smoother sampling trajectories, we explore the use of Flow Matching as an alternative to current diffusion-based layout…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Julian Jorge Andrade Guerreiro , Naoto Inoue , Kento Masui , Mayu Otani , Hideki Nakayama