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Adaptive Finite Element Method (adaptivity) is known to be an effective numerical tool for some ill-posed problems. The key advantage of the adaptivity is the image improvement with local mesh refinements. A rigorous proof of this property…

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Metamaterials, synthetic materials with customized properties, have emerged as a promising field due to advancements in additive manufacturing. These materials derive unique mechanical properties from their internal lattice structures,…

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We present a robust and efficient target-based mesh adaptation methodology, building on hybridized discontinuous Galerkin schemes for (nonlinear) convection-diffusion problems, including the compressible Euler and Navier-Stokes equations.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-11-12 Michael Woopen , Georg May , Jochen Schütz

This study demonstrates how the adjoint-based framework traditionally used to compute gradients in PDE optimization problems can be extended to handle general constraints on the state variables. This is accomplished by constructing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-13 Pritpal Matharu , Bartosz Protas

Inverse design enables automating the discovery and optimization of devices achieving performance significantly exceeding that of traditional human-engineered designs. However, existing methodologies to inverse-design electromagnetic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Jui-Hung Sun , Mohamed Elsawaf , Yifei Zheng , Ho-Chun Lin , Chia Wei Hsu , Constantine Sideris

In this paper, gradient-based optimization methods are combined with finite-element modeling for improving electric devices. Geometric design parameters are considered by affine decomposition of the geometry or by the design element…

We present a general and automated approach for computing model gradients for PDE solvers built on sparse spectral methods, and implement this capability in the widely used open-source Dedalus framework. We apply reverse-mode automatic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-15 Calum S. Skene , Keaton J. Burns

We derive and implement a second-order adjoint method to compute exact gradients and Hessians for a prototypical quantum optimal control problem, that of solving for the minimal energy applied electric field that drives a molecule from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-02 Harish S. Bhat

Precise control of temperature fields at the micro- and nanoscale is essential for emerging applications in nanophotonics, catalysis, and microfluidics, yet remains difficult due to the diffusive nature of heat. While inverse-design…

Optics · Physics 2025-10-20 Gopal Narmada Naidu , Omer Can Karaman , Giulia Tagliabue

A continuous system of moment equations is introduced that models the transverse dynamics of a beam of charged particles as it passes through an arbitrary lattice of quadrupoles and solenoids in the presence of self-fields. Then, figures of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-04-20 L. Dovlatyan , B. L. Beaudoin , S. Bernal , I. Haber , D. Sutter , T. M. Antonsen

We introduce a computationally efficient method for the automation of inverse design in science and engineering. Based on simple least-square regression, the underlying dynamic mode decomposition algorithm can be used to construct a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yunpeng Zhu , Liangliang Cheng , Anping Jing , Hanyu Huo , Ziqiang Lang , Bo Zhang , J. Nathan Kutz

Optical devices lie at the heart of most of the technology we see around us. When one actually wants to make such an optical device, one can predict its optical behavior using computational simulations of Maxwell's equations. If one then…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Joeri Lenaerts , Hannah Pinson , Vincent Ginis

Inexact alternating direction multiplier methods (ADMMs) are developed for solving general separable convex optimization problems with a linear constraint and with an objective that is the sum of smooth and nonsmooth terms. The approach…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-12 William W. Hager , Hongchao Zhang

We introduce a novel technique for designing color filter metasurfaces using a data-driven approach based on deep learning. Our innovative approach employs inverse design principles to identify highly efficient designs that outperform all…

We develop a new optimisation technique that combines multiresolution subdivision surfaces for boundary description with immersed finite elements for the discretisation of the primal and adjoint problems of optimisation. Similar to wavelets…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Kosala Bandara , Thomas Rüberg , Fehmi Cirak

Metasurfaces have emerged as a powerful platform for compact optical sensors by replacing bulky lenses with flat arrays of subwavelength nanostructures. In precision optical metrology, the simultaneous mapping of a beam's polarization state…

Deep Learning has been a critical part of designing inverse design methods that are computationally efficient and accurate. An example of this is the design of photonic metasurfaces by using their photoluminescent spectrum as the input data…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-08 Yuansan Liu , Jeygopi Panisilvam , Peter Dower , Sejeong Kim , James Bailey

This paper aims to present a fairly accessible generalization of several symmetric Gauss-Seidel decomposition based multi-block proximal alternating direction methods of multipliers (ADMMs) for convex composite optimization problems. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-09 Liang Chen , Defeng Sun , Kim-Chuan Toh , Ning Zhang

Disordered metamaterials are promising for programming physical properties across diverse applications, yet their inverse design remains challenging due to the non-intuitive structure-property relationships and large design spaces. Recent…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Ziyuan Xie , Weipeng Xu , Dazhi Zhao , Wenchang Zhang , Daoyang Dong , Bingbing Xu , Ning Liu , Sheng Mao , Tianju Xue

Designing microwave absorbers with customized spectrums is an attractive topic in both scientific and engineering communities. However, due to the massive number of design parameters involved, the design process is typically time-consuming…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-11-27 Xiangxu He , Xiaohan Cui , C. T. Chan