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We present the Physics-Informed Optimal Homotopy Analysis Method (PI-OHAM) for solving nonlinear differential equations. PI-OHAM, based on classical HAM, employs a physics-informed residual loss to optimize convergence-control parameters…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Ziya Uddin

This work presents an efficient numerical method based on spectral expansions for simulation of heat and moisture diffusive transfers through multilayered porous materials. Traditionally, by using the finite-difference approach, the problem…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-02-20 Suelen Gasparin , Denys Dutykh , Nathan Mendes

High-order moving-mesh methods can effectively reduce numerical diffusion, but their formal accuracy typically relies on the regularity of the mesh velocity. This dependency creates a fundamental conflict in the numerical solution of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Chaoyi Cai , Qiqin Cheng , Di Wu , Jianxian Qiu

Particle tracking in large-scale numerical simulations of turbulent flows presents one of the major bottlenecks in parallel performance and scaling efficiency. Here, we describe a particle tracking algorithm for large-scale parallel…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-05-31 Cristian C. Lalescu , Bérenger Bramas , Markus Rampp , Michael Wilczek

In this paper, we study spline trajectory generation via the solution of two optimisation problems: (i) a quadratic program (QP) with linear equality constraints and (ii) a nonlinear and nonconvex optimisation program. We propose an…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-06 Declan Burke , Airlie Chapman , Iman Shames

All-pairs shortest paths (APSP) is a fundamental algorithm used for routing, logistics, and network analysis, but the cubic time complexity and heavy data movement of the canonical Floyd-Warshall (FW) algorithm severely limits its…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Tsung-Han Lu , Zheyu Li , Minxuan Zhou , Tajana Rosing

In this paper, Particle Swarm Optimization with energy-to-fuel continuation is proposed for initializing the co-state variables for low-thrust minimum-fuel trajectory optimization problems in the circular restricted three-body problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Grant R. Hecht , Eleonora M. Botta

Solving high-dimensional parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) with deep learning methods is often computationally and memory intensive, primarily due to the need for automatic differentiation (AD) to compute large Hessian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Wei Cai , Shuixin Fang , Tao Zhou

A finite element based computational scheme is developed and employed to assess a duality based variational approach to the solution of the linear heat and transport PDE in one space dimension and time, and the nonlinear system of ODEs of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-10 Uditnarayan Kouskiya , Amit Acharya

A numerical scheme is presented for approximating fractional order Poisson problems in two and three dimensions. The scheme is based on reformulating the original problem posed over $\Omega$ on the extruded domain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-27 Mark Ainsworth , Christian Glusa

Trajectory optimization is a cornerstone of modern robot autonomy, enabling systems to compute trajectories and controls in real-time while respecting safety and physical constraints. However, it has seen limited usage in spaceflight…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Somrita Banerjee , Abhishek Cauligi , Marco Pavone

To address the problem of combined heat and power economic emission dispatch (CHPEED), a two-stage approach is proposed by combining multi-objective optimization (MOO) with integrated decision making (IDM). First, a practical CHPEED model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Yang Li , Jinlong Wang , Dongbo Zhao , Guoqing Li , Chen Chen

Reaction-diffusion systems are used to represent many biological and physical phenomena. They model the random motion of particles (diffusion) and interactions between them (reactions). Such systems can be modelled at multiple scales with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-06-08 Cameron A. Smith , Christian A. Yates

Extremum Seeking (ES) is an effective real-time optimization method for PDE systems in cascade with nonlinear quadratic maps. To address PDEs in the feedback loop, a boundary control law and a re-design of the additive probing signal are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Haojin Guo , Zongyi Guo , Jianguo Guo , Tiago Roux Oliveira

Differential dynamic programming (DDP) is a widely used and powerful trajectory optimization technique, however, due to its internal structure, it is not exempt from local minima. In this paper, we present Differential Dynamic Programming…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Aleksander Gamayunov , Aleksey Postnikov , Gonzalo Ferrer

3D particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is a key technique for analyzing turbulent flow, one of the most challenging computational problems of our century. At the core of 3D PTV is the dual-frame fluid motion estimation algorithm, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yifei Zhang , Huan-ang Gao , Zhou Jiang , Hao Zhao

We introduce a method that combines neural operators, physics-informed machine learning, and standard numerical methods for solving PDEs. The proposed approach extends each of the aforementioned methods and unifies them within a single…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Shahed Rezaei , Reza Najian Asl , Kianoosh Taghikhani , Ahmad Moeineddin , Michael Kaliske , Markus Apel

\textbf{Objective: }To develop a real-time method for designing gradient waveforms for arbitrary $k$-space trajectories that are time-optimal and hardware-compliant. \textbf{Methods: }The gradient waveform is solved recursively under both…

Medical Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Rui Luo , Hongzhang Huang , Qinfang Miao , Jian Xu , Peng Hu , Haikun Qi

In the present manuscript, approximate solution for 1D heat conduction equation will be sought with the Septic Hermite Collocation Method (SHCM). To achieve this goal, by means of the roots of both Chebyschev and Legendre polinomials used…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Selçuk Kutluay , Nuri Murat Yağmurlu , Ali Sercan Karakaş

Optimal transport provides a powerful framework for comparing measures while respecting the geometry of their support, but comes with an expensive computational cost, hindering its potential application to real world use cases. On…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Pierre Houédry , Iskander Legheraba , Léo Buecher , Nicolas Courty