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High fidelity simulations, e.g., large eddy simulation are often needed for accurately predicting pressure losses due to wake mixing in turbomachinery applications. An unsteady adjoint of such high fidelity simulations is useful for design…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-11-24 Chaitanya Talnikar , Qiqi Wang , Gregory M. Laskowski

With this contribution, we shed light on the relation between the discrete adjoints of multistep backward differentiation formula (BDF) methods and the solution of the adjoint differential equation. To this end, we develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Dörte Beigel , Mario S. Mommer , Leonard Wirsching , Hans Georg Bock

We consider the reconstruction of moving sources using partial measured data. A two-step deterministic-statistical approach is proposed. In the first step, an approximate direct sampling method is developed to obtain the locations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-07 Yanfang Liu , Yukun Guo , Jiguang Sun

We present a series of new open source deep learning algorithms to accelerate Bayesian full waveform point source inversion of microseismic events. Inferring the joint posterior probability distribution of moment tensor components and…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-08-03 A. Spurio Mancini , D. Piras , A. M. G. Ferreira , M. P. Hobson , B. Joachimi

We devise the fast adjoint response algorithm for the gradient of physical measures (long-time-average statistics) of discrete-time hyperbolic chaos with respect to many system parameters. Its cost is independent of the number of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-09-13 Angxiu Ni

In this work, we present an adjoint-based method for discovering the underlying governing partial differential equations (PDEs) given data. The idea is to consider a parameterized PDE in a general form and formulate a PDE-constrained…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Mohsen Sadr , Tony Tohme , Kamal Youcef-Toumi

When solving inverse problems in geophysical imaging, deep generative models (DGMs) may be used to enforce the solution to display highly structured spatial patterns which are supported by independent information (e.g. the geological…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Jorge Lopez-Alvis , Eric Laloy , Frédéric Nguyen , Thomas Hermans

When solving the time-dependent radiative transport equation (RTE), implicit time discretization is often employed for its robustness and stability. This results in a sequence of steady-state RTEs with identical cross-sections but varying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-24 Qinchen Song , Lei Zhang , Min Tang

We present a stochastic descent algorithm for unconstrained optimization that is particularly efficient when the objective function is slow to evaluate and gradients are not easily obtained, as in some PDE-constrained optimization and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-08 David Kozak , Stephen Becker , Alireza Doostan , Luis Tenorio

We propose a double obstacle phase field methodology for binary recovery of the slowness function of an Eikonal equation found in first traveltime tomography. We treat the inverse problem as an optimization problem with quadratic misfit…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Charles M. Elliott

We present a novel deep learning approach to approximate the solution of large, sparse, symmetric, positive-definite linear systems of equations. These systems arise from many problems in applied science, e.g., in numerical methods for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Ayano Kaneda , Osman Akar , Jingyu Chen , Victoria Kala , David Hyde , Joseph Teran

We study an inverse problem associated with an eddy current model. We first address the ill-posedness of the inverse problem by proving the compactness of the forward map with respect to the conductivity and the non-uniqueness of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-08-26 Junqing Chen , Ying Liang , Jun Zou

We propose Mirror Descent Optimal Transport (MDOT), a novel method for solving discrete optimal transport (OT) problems with high precision, by unifying temperature annealing in entropic-regularized OT (EOT) with mirror descent techniques.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mete Kemertas , Allan D. Jepson , Amir-massoud Farahmand

In this article, we introduce a finite element method designed for the robust computation of approximate signed distance functions to arbitrary boundaries in two and three dimensions. Our method employs a novel prediction-correction…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Amina El Bachari , Johann Rannou , Vladislav A. Yastrebov , Pierre Kerfriden , Susanne Claus

An efficient algorithm for the reconstruction of the magnetization state within magnetic components is presented. The occurring inverse magnetostatic problem is solved by means of an adjoint approach, based on the Fredkin-Koehler method for…

The adjoint method is a popular method used for seismic (full-waveform) inversion today. The method is considered to give more realistic and detailed images of the interior of the Earth by the use of more realistic physics. It relies on the…

Geophysics · Physics 2024-08-28 Rafael Abreu

First-arrival traveltime computation is crucial for many applications such as traveltime tomography, Kirchhoff migration, etc. There exist two major issues in conventional eikonal solvers: the source singularity issue and insufficient…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Kai Gao , Lianjie Huang

This work establishes a framework for solving inverse boundary problems with the geodesic based quadratic Wasserstein distance ($W_{2}$). A general form of the Fr\'echet gradient is systematically derived by optimal transportation (OT)…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-31 Gang Bao , Yixuan Zhang

Motivated by applications to distributed optimization over networks and large-scale data processing in machine learning, we analyze the deterministic incremental aggregated gradient method for minimizing a finite sum of smooth functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-16 Mert Gurbuzbalaban , Asuman Ozdaglar , Pablo Parrilo

Convergence detection of iterative stochastic optimization methods is of great practical interest. This paper considers stochastic gradient descent (SGD) with a constant learning rate and momentum. We show that there exists a transient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Jerry Chee , Ping Li