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For the 2D incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, with given hypothetical non smooth data at time $T > 0 $that may not correspond to an actual solution at time $T$, a previously developed stabilized backward marching explicit leapfrog…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-25 Alfred S. Carasso

Functional data analysis almost always involves smoothing discrete observations into curves, because they are never observed in continuous time and rarely without error. Although smoothing parameters affect the subsequent inference,…

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We study an inverse design problem for the linear multiple fragmentation equation arising in particle dynamics. Our objective is to reconstruct an unknown initial size distribution that evolves, under a prescribed fragmentation law, into a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Arijit Das

In this paper we consider the inverse problem of identifying the initial data in a fractionally damped wave equation from time trace measurements on a surface, as relevant in photoacoustic or thermoacoustic tomography. We derive and analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Barbara Kaltenbacher , Anna Schlintl

We introduce an adjoint-based aerodynamic shape optimization framework that integrates a diffusion model trained on existing designs to learn a smooth manifold of aerodynamically viable shapes. This manifold is enforced as an equality…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Long Chen , Emre Oezkaya , Jan Rottmayer , Nicolas R. Gauger , Zebang Shen , Yinyu Ye

Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analyses are a vital component for predictive modeling in the sciences and engineering. The adjoint approach to sensitivity analysis requires solving a primary system of equations and a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-12-08 Kelli D. Humbird , Ryan G. McClarren

A fundamental challenge in the design of photonic devices, and electromagnetic structures more generally, is the optimization of their overall architecture to achieve a desired response. To this end, topology or shape optimizers based on…

Continuous data assimilation methods, such as the nudging algorithm introduced by Azouani, Olson, and Titi (AOT) [2], are known to be highly effective in deterministic settings for asymptotically synchronizing approximate solutions with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Hakima Bessaih , Benedetta Ferrario , Oussama Landoulsi , Margherita Zanella

This paper develops a framework connecting discrete adjoint gradient-error analysis with an optimization method that uses directional error tolerances, and applies it to airfoil shape optimization governed by a conservative full-potential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Humberto Gimenes Macedo , Luís Felipe Bueno

In many real-world applications of data assimilation (DA), the strategic placement of observers is crucial for effective and efficient forecasting. Motivated by practical constraints in sensor deployment, we show that global recovery of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Rui Fang , Ali Pakzad

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

The transient growth of disturbances made possible by the non-normality of the linearized Navier-Stokes equations plays an important role in bypass transition for many shear flows. Transient growth is typically quantified by the maximum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-24 Zhicheng Kai , Peter Frame , Aaron Towne

First-order optimization algorithms, often preferred for large problems, require the gradient of the differentiable terms in the objective function. These gradients often involve linear operators and their adjoints, which must be applied…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-07-10 James Folberth , Stephen Becker

For a given {\it misfit function}, a specified optimality measure of a model, its gradient describes the manner in which one may alter properties of the system to march towards a stationary point. The adjoint method, arising from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Shravan Hanasoge , Aaron Birch , Laurent Gizon , Jeroen Tromp

Inferring physical parameters of turbulent flows by assimilation of data measurements is an open challenge with key applications in meteorology, climate modeling and astrophysics. Up to now, spectral nudging was applied for empirical…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-10-29 P. Clark Di Leoni , A. Mazzino , L. Biferale

The field theoretic renormalization group and the operator product expansion are applied to two models of passive scalar quantities (the density and the tracer fields) advected by a random turbulent velocity field. The latter is governed by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-01-05 N. V. Antonov , M. M. Kostenko

Recent simulations indicate that streamwise-preferential porous materials have the potential to reduce drag in wall-bounded turbulent flows(Gomez-de-Segura & Garcia-Mayoral 2019). This paper extends the resolvent formulation to study the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-03-26 Andrew Chavarin , Garazi Gomez-de-Segura , Ricardo Garcia-Mayoral , Mitul Luhar

Data assimilation aims to estimate the states of a dynamical system by optimally combining sparse and noisy observations of the physical system with uncertain forecasts produced by a computational model. The states of many dynamical systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-08 Amit N. Subrahmanya , Andrey A. Popov , Reid J. Gomillion , Adrian Sandu

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 report on recent work on adaptive timestep control for weakly instationary gas flows [16, 18, 17] carried out within SFB 401, TPA3. The method which we implement and extend is a space-time splitting of adjoint error representations for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Sebastian Noelle , Christina Steiner