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For hyperbolic diffeomorphisms, we define adjoint shadowing directions as a bounded inhomogeneous adjoint solution whose initial condition has zero component in the unstable adjoint direction. For hyperbolic flows, we define adjoint…

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Verification, validation and uncertainty quantification (VVUQ) have become a common practice in thermal-hydraulics analysis. An important step in the uncertainty analysis is the sensitivity analysis of various uncertain input parameters.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-05-04 Guojun Hu , Tomasz Kozlowski

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 paper, we discuss selected adjoint approaches for the turbulent flow control. In particular, we focus on the application of adjoint solvers for the scope of noise reduction, in which flow solutions are obtained by large eddy and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-01 Emre Özkaya , Nicolas R. Gauger , Daniel Marinc , Holger Foysi

We propose a novel multiple-scale spatial marching method for flows with slow streamwise variation. The key idea is to couple the boundary region equations, which govern large-scale flow evolution, with local exact coherent structures that…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Runjie Song , Kengo Deguchi

Computational methods for sensitivity analysis are invaluable tools for aerodynamics research and engineering design. However, traditional sensitivity analysis methods break down when applied to long-time averaged quantities in turbulent…

Computational Physics · Physics 2014-01-17 Patrick Blonigan , Steven Gomez , Qiqi Wang

Transient growth analysis has been extensively studied in asymptotically stable flows to identify their short-term amplification of perturbations. Generally, in global transient growth analyses, matrix-free methods are adopted, requiring…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-09-24 Yin Wang , Xuerui Mao

We consider the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations with periodic boundary conditions and time-independent forcing. For this type of flow, we derive adjoint equations whose trajectories converge asymptotically to the equilibrium and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2016-04-15 Mohammad Farazmand

In this article, we address the solution of advection-dominated flow problems by stabilised methods, by means of least-squares computed stabilised coefficients. As main methodological tool, we introduce a data-driven off-line/on-line…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-29 Tomás Chacón Rebollo , Daniel Franco Coronil

Given a family of systems, identifying stabilizing switching signals in terms of infinite walks constructed by concatenating cycles on the underlying directed graph of a switched system that satisfy certain conditions, is a well-known…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Atreyee Kundu

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

Chaotic dynamics in systems ranging from low-dimensional nonlinear differential equations to high-dimensional spatio-temporal systems including fluid turbulence is supported by non-chaotic, exactly recurring time-periodic solutions of the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-14 Sajjad Azimi , Omid Ashtari , Tobias M. Schneider

We consider the statistical inverse problem of estimating a background flow field (e.g., of air or water) from the partial and noisy observation of a passive scalar (e.g., the concentration of a solute), a common experimental approach to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Jeff Borggaard , Nathan E. Glatt-Holtz , Justin A. Krometis

This paper develops a variant of the Least Squares Shadowing (LSS) method, which has successfully computed the derivative for several chaotic ODEs and PDEs. The development in this paper aims to simplify Least Squares Shadowing method by…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-05-02 Mario Chater , Angxiu Ni , Qiqi Wang

We develop an adjoint approach for recovering the topographical function included in the source term of one-dimensional hyperbolic balance laws. We focus on a specific system, namely the shallow water equations, in an effort to recover the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-06 Jolene Britton , Yat Tin Chow , Weitao Chen , Yulong Xing

We establish the theoretical framework for adjoint-based phase reduction analysis for incompressible periodic flows. Through this adjoint-based method, we obtain spatiotemporal phase sensitivity fields through a single pair of forward and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-11 Yoji Kawamura , Vedasri Godavarthi , Kunihiko Taira

Resolvent analysis is a powerful tool for modeling and analyzing turbulent flows and in particular provides an approximation of coherent flow structures. Despite recent algorithmic advances, computing resolvent modes for flows with more…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-09-21 Aaron Towne , Georgios Rigas , Ethan Pickering , Tim Colonius

Nonintrusive shadowing algorithms efficiently compute $v$, the difference between shadowing trajectories, then use $v$ to compute derivatives of averaged objectives of chaos with respect to parameters of the dynamical system. However,…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Angxiu Ni

This paper applies a discrete adjoint gradient computation method for a multi-class traffic flow model on road networks. Vehicle classes are characterized by their specific velocity functions, which depend on the total traffic density,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Paola Goatin , Axel Klar , Carmen Mezquita-Nieto

We propose a constraint-based flow-sensitive static analysis for concurrent programs by iteratively composing thread-modular abstract interpreters via the use of a system of lightweight constraints. Our method is compositional in that it…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-10-02 Markus Kusano , Chao Wang