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We introduce and study a new inverse problem for antiplane shear in elastic bodies with strain-gradient interfaces. The setting is a homogeneous isotropic elastic body containing an inclusion separated by a thin interface endowed with…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Govanni Granados , Jeremy L. Marzuola , Casey Rodriguez

We introduce new multilevel methods for solving large-scale unconstrained optimization problems. Specifically, the philosophy of multilevel methods is applied to Newton-type methods that regularize the Newton sub-problem using second order…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-16 Nick Tsipinakis , Panos Parpas

As one of the most popular interface-capturing methods, the level-set method is inherently non-conservative, and its evolution usually leads to unphysical mass gain/loss. In this paper, a novel conservative level set method is developed for…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-22 Tian Long , Jinsheng Cai , Shucheng Pan

We study multilevel techniques, commonly used in PDE multigrid literature, to solve structured optimization problems. For a given hierarchy of levels, we formulate a coarse model that approximates the problem at each level and provides a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-19 Ferdinand Vanmaele , Yara Elshiaty , Stefania Petra

The level-set method is a popular method for interface capturing. One of the advantages of the level-set method is that the curvature and the normal vector of the interface can be readily calculated from the level-set function. However, in…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-07-30 Karl Yngve Lervåg

We consider a regularization concept for the solution of ill--posed operator equations, where the operator is composed of a continuous and a discontinuous operator. A particular application is level set regularization, where we develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-11-16 F. Frühauf , O. Scherzer , A. Leitao

This paper proposes a variational framework for multi-objective level set topology optimization. The approach interprets the level set function as a generalized coordinate of a fictitious material and derives its equation of motion from…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-25 Jan Oellerich , Takayuki Yamada

Recently, machine learning has been used to substitute parts of conventional computational fluid dynamics, e.g. the cell-face reconstruction in finite-volume solvers or the curvature computation in the Volume-of-Fluid (VOF) method. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-03-14 Aaron B. Buhendwa , Deniz A. Bezgin , Nikolaus Adams

Inspired by multigrid methods for linear systems of equations, multilevel optimization methods have been proposed to solve structured optimization problems. Multilevel methods make more assumptions regarding the structure of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-27 Chin Pang Ho , Michal Kocvara , Panos Parpas

We aim to solve a topology optimization problem where the distribution of material in the design domain is represented by a density function. To obtain candidates for local minima, we want to solve the first order optimality system via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-08 P. Gangl , M. Winkler

The level set method is a widely used tool for solving reachability and invariance problems. However, some shortcomings, such as the difficulties of handling dissipation function and constructing terminal conditions for solving the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-01 Wei Liao , Taotao Liang , Xiaohui Wei , Jizhou Lai

We consider the problem of active learning in the context of spatial sampling for level set estimation (LSE), where the goal is to localize all regions where a function of interest lies above/below a given threshold as quickly as possible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Phillip Kearns , Bruno Jedynak , John Lipor

We propose a method that morphs high-orger meshes such that their boundaries and interfaces coincide/align with implicitly defined geometries. Our focus is particularly on the case when the target surface is prescribed as the zero…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Jorge-Luis Barrera , Tzanio Kolev , Ketan Mittal , Vladimir Tomov

We present a machine learning framework that blends image super-resolution technologies with passive, scalar transport in the level-set method. Here, we investigate whether we can compute on-the-fly, data-driven corrections to minimize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Luis Ángel Larios-Cárdenas , Frédéric Gibou

Level set-based immersed boundary techniques operate on nonconforming meshes while providing a crisp definition of interface and external boundaries. In such techniques, an isocontour of a level set field interpolated from nodal level set…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Jorge L. Barrera , Kurt Maute

We study settings where gradient penalties are used alongside risk minimization with the goal of obtaining predictors satisfying different notions of monotonicity. Specifically, we present two sets of contributions. In the first part of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Joao Monteiro , Mohamed Osama Ahmed , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

We introduce and analyze a lower envelope method (LEM) for the tracking of interfaces motion in multiphase problems. The main idea of the method is to define the phases as the regions where the lower envelope of a set of functions coincides…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Antoine Laurain

An accurate implicit description of geometries is enabled by the level-set method. Level-set data is given at the nodes of a higher-order background mesh and the interpolated zero-level sets imply boundaries of the domain or interfaces…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2017-06-05 T. P. Fries , S. Omerović , D. Schöllhammer , J. Steidl

Learning monotonic models with respect to a subset of the inputs is a desirable feature to effectively address the fairness, interpretability, and generalization issues in practice. Existing methods for learning monotonic neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Xingchao Liu , Xing Han , Na Zhang , Qiang Liu

In this paper, a new re-initialization method for the conservative level-set function is put forward. First, it has been shown that the re-initialization and advection equations of the conservative level-set function are mathematically…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2015-07-29 Tomasz Waclawczyk