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The present work is devoted to approximation of the statistical moments of the unknown solution of a class of elliptic transmission problems in $\mathbb R^3$ with randomly perturbed interfaces. Within this model, the diffusion coefficient…

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Minimizing the so-called "Dirichlet energy" with respect to the domain under a volume constraint is a standard problem in shape optimization which is now well understood. This article is devoted to a prototypal non-linear version of the…

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This work is concerned with the quantification of the epistemic uncertainties induced the discretization of partial differential equations. Following the paradigm of probabilistic numerics, we quantify this uncertainty probabilistically.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-14 Ilias Bilionis

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Peter Gangl , Kevin Sturm

Many important physical problems, such as fluid structure interaction or conjugate heat transfer, require numerical methods that compute boundary derivatives or fluxes to high accuracy. This paper proposes a novel alternative to calculating…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-12 David Wells , Jeffrey Banks

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Lilian Welschinger , Yilin Liu , Zican Wang , Niloy Mitra

We consider elliptic partial differential equations with diffusion coefficients that depend affinely on countably many parameters. We study the summability properties of polynomial expansions of the function mapping parameter values to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-24 Markus Bachmayr , Albert Cohen , Giovanni Migliorati

Shape optimization models with one or more shapes are considered in this chapter. Of particular interest for applications are problems in which where a so-called shape functional is constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

This thesis deals with shape optimization for contact mechanics. More specifically, the linear elasticity model is considered under the small deformations hypothesis, and the elastic body is assumed to be in contact (sliding or with Tresca…

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In this paper we present a framework for automated shape differentiation in the finite element software NGSolve. Our approach combines the mathematical Lagrangian approach for differentiating PDE constrained shape functions with the…

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We consider the problem of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in domains with complex microparticle geometry that is impractical, or intractable, to model explicitly. Drawing inspiration from volume rendering, we propose tackling…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Bailey Miller , Rohan Sawhney , Keenan Crane , Ioannis Gkioulekas

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Livia Betz

In this paper, we propose a novel shape optimization approach for the source identification of elliptic equations. This identification problem arises from two application backgrounds: actuator placement in PDE-constrained optimal controls…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-04 Wei Gong , Ziyi Zhang

This paper explores the reconstruction of a space-dependent parameter in inverse diffusion problems, proposing a shape-optimization-based approach. We consider a Robin boundary condition, physically motivated in diffuse optical tomography…

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Implicit sampling is a weighted sampling method that is used in data assimilation, where one sequentially updates estimates of the state of a stochastic model based on a stream of noisy or incomplete data. Here we describe how to use…

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This paper investigates a shape optimization problem involving the Signorini unilateral conditions in a linear elastic model, without any penalization procedure. The shape sensitivity analysis is performed using tools from convex and…

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Transportation processes, which play a prominent role in the life and social sciences, are typically described by discrete models on lattices. For studying their dynamics a continuous formulation of the problem via partial differential…

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A unified method for extracting geometric shape features from binary image data using a steady state partial differential equation (PDE) system as a boundary value problem is presented in this paper. The PDE and functions are formulated to…

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This work studies how the choice of the representation for parametric, spatially distributed inputs to elliptic partial differential equations (PDEs) affects the efficiency of a polynomial surrogate, based on Taylor expansion, for the…

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In this article, we propose a new numerical approach to high-dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) arising in the valuation of exotic derivative securities. The proposed method is extended from Reisinger and Wittum (2007) and…

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