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We propose a mixed finite element method for the motion of a strongly viscous, ideal, and isentropic gas. At the boundary we impose a Navier-slip condition such that the velocity equation can be posed in mixed form with the vorticity as an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Kenneth Karlsen , Trygve Karper

Using recently developed adjoint methods for computing the shape derivatives of functions that depend on MHD equilibria (Antonsen et al. 2019; Paul et al. 2020), we present the first example of analytic gradient-based optimization of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Elizabeth Paul , Matt Landreman , Thomas Antonsen

In this paper, the original discrete unified gas kinetic scheme (DUGKS) is extended to arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) framework for simulating the low-speed continuum and rarefied flows with moving boundaries. For ALE method, the mesh…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Yong Wan , Chengwen Zhong

We present a numerical comparison between two standard finite volume schemes and a discontinuous Galerkin method applied to the BGK equation of rarefied gas dynamics. We pay a particular attention to the numerical boundary conditions in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-13 Céline Baranger , Nicolas Hérouard , Julien Mathiaud , Luc Mieussens

Calibration of unknown model parameters is a common task in many ocean model applications. We present an adjoint-based optimization of an unstructured mesh shallow water model for the Baltic Sea. Spatially varying bottom friction parameter…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Tuomas Kärnä , Joseph G. Wallwork , Stephan C. Kramer

In this paper, we consider the numerical approximation of the quasi-static, linear Biot model in a 3D domain $\Omega$ when the right-hand side of the mass balance equation is concentrated on a 1D line source $\delta_{\Lambda}$. This model…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Nadia S. Taki , Ingeborg G. Gjerde

This work introduces an optimization-based $rp$-adaptive numerical method to approximate solutions of viscous, shock-dominated flows using implicit shock tracking and a high-order discontinuous Galerkin discretization on traditionally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-22 Huijing Dong , Masayuki Yano , Tianci Huang , Matthew J. Zahr

We propose a deterministic adjoint matching framework that formulates human preference alignment for flow-based generative models as an optimal control problem over velocity fields. One can directly regress the control toward a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Zhengyi Guo , Jiayuan Sheng , David D. Yao , Wenpin Tang

This work presents a partitioned solution procedure to compute shape gradients in fluid-structure interaction (FSI) using black-box adjoint solvers. Special attention is paid to project the gradients onto the undeformed configuration. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-09 Reza Najian Asl , Ihar Antonau , Aditya Ghantasala , Wulf G. Dettmer , Roland Wuchner , Kai-Uwe Bletzinger

In this work, we propose an adjoint-based optimization procedure to control the onset of the Rayleigh-B\'enard instability with a melting front. A novel cut cell method is used to solve the Navier-Stokes equations in the Boussinesq…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Tomas Fullana , Alejandro Quirós Rodríguez , Vincent Le Chenadec , Taraneh Sayadi

In the optimization of turbomachinery components, shape sensitivities for fluid dynamical objective functions have been used for a long time. As peak stress is not a differential func- tional of the shape, such highly efficient procedures…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-15 Hanno Gottschalk , Mohamed Saadi , Onur Tanil Doganay , Kathrin Klamroth , Sebastian Schmitz

Most of numerical methods for deterministic simulations of rarefied gas flows use the discrete velocity (or discrete ordinate) approximation. In this approach, the kinetic equation is approximated with a global velocity grid. The grid must…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-03-19 Stéphane Brull , Luc Mieussens

The classical problem of steady rarefied gas flow past an infinitely thin circular disk is revisited, with particular emphasis on the gas behavior near the disk edge. The uniform flow is assumed to be perpendicular to the disk surface. An…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-26 Takuma Tomita , Satoshi Taguchi , Tetsuro Tsuji

A Cartesian grid method combined with a simplified gas kinetic scheme is presented for subsonic and supersonic viscous flow simulation on complex geometries. Under the Cartesian mesh, the computational grid points are classified into four…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-02-17 Songze Chen , Kun Xu , Zhihui Li

This paper proposes a topology optimization method for non-thermal and thermal fluid problems using the Lattice Kinetic Scheme (LKS).LKS, which is derived from the Lattice Boltzmann Method (LBM), requires only macroscopic values, such as…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Yuta Tanabe , Kentaro Yaji , Kuniharu Ushijima

Modelling rarefied gas flow via the Boltzmann equation plays a vital role in many areas. Due to the high dimensionality of this kinetic equation and the coexistence of multiple characteristic scales in the transport processes, conventional…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Wei Su , Xi Zou

Gaseous flows under an external force are intrinsically defined by their multi-scale nature due to the large variation of densities along the forcing direction. Devising a numerical method capable of accurately and efficiently solving…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Shuangqing Liu , Zuoxu Li , Yonghao Zhang , Tianbai Xiao

In this paper we consider a shape optimization problem for the minimization of the erosion, that is caused by the impact of inert particles onto the walls of a bended pipe. Using the continuous adjoint approach, we formally compute the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-14 Raphael Hohmann , Christian Leithäuser

This paper presents a computational approach for finding the optimal shapes of peristaltic pumps transporting rigid particles in Stokes flow. In particular, we consider shapes that minimize the rate of energy dissipation while pumping a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-05 Marc Bonnet , Ruowen Liu , Shravan Veerapaneni , Hai Zhu

Maximum-entropy moment methods allow for the modelling of gases from the continuum regime to strongly rarefied conditions. The development of approximated solutions to the entropy maximization problem has made these methods computationally…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-01-30 Stefano Boccelli , Willem Kaufmann , Thierry E. Magin , James G. McDonald