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Quasisymmetric stellarators are a type of optimized stellarators for which flows are undamped to lowest order in an expansion in the normalized Larmor radius. However, perfect quasisymmetry is impossible. Since large flows may be desirable…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-03-13 Ivan Calvo , Felix I. Parra , J. L. Velasco , J. Arturo Alonso

We study 3D chaotic dynamics through an analysis of transport in a granular flow in a half-full spherical tumbler rotated sequentially about two orthogonal axes (a bi-axial "blinking" tumbler). The flow is essentially quasi-2D in any…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2014-07-02 Ivan C. Christov , Richard M. Lueptow , Julio M. Ottino , Rob Sturman

Many problems in machine learning involve calculating correspondences between sets of objects, such as point clouds or images. Discrete optimal transport provides a natural and successful approach to such tasks whenever the two sets of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-02-28 David Alvarez-Melis , Stefanie Jegelka , Tommi S. Jaakkola

A surrogate-based topology optimisation algorithm for linear elastic structures under parametric loads and boundary conditions is proposed. Instead of learning the parametric solution of the state (and adjoint) problems or the optimisation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Matteo Giacomini , Antonio Huerta

Classical algorithms for predicting the equilibrium geometry of strongly correlated molecules require expensive wave function methods that become impractical already for few-atom systems. In this work, we introduce a variational quantum…

Designing nanophotonic structures traditionally grapples with the complexities of discrete parameters, such as real materials, often resorting to costly global optimization methods. This paper introduces an approach that leverages…

Stellar streams retain a memory of their gravitational interactions with small-scale perturbations. While perturbative models for streams have been formulated in action-angle coordinates, a direct transformation to these coordinates is only…

The computational models for geophysical flows are computationally very expensive to employ in multi-query tasks such as data assimilation, uncertainty quantification, and hence surrogate models sought to alleviate the computational burden…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-01-10 Suraj Pawar , Omer San , Gary G. Yen

The use of machine learning to represent subgrid-scale (SGS) dynamics is now well established in weather forecasting and climate modelling. Recent advances have demonstrated that SGS models trained via ``online'' end-to-end learning --…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-19 Hugo Frezat , Thomas Gastine , Alexandre Fournier

Multi-revolution low-thrust trajectory optimization problems are important and challenging in space mission design. In this paper, an efficient, accurate, and widely applicable pseudospectral method is proposed to solve multi-revolution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-03 Yilin Zou , Fanghua Jiang

Continuous time quantum walks provide an important framework for designing new algorithms and modelling quantum transport and state transfer problems. Often, the graph representing the structure of a problem contains certain symmetries that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Leonardo Novo , Shantanav Chakraborty , Masoud Mohseni , Hartmut Neven , Yasser Omar

Using recently developed adjoint methods for computing the shape derivatives of functions that depend on MHD equilibria (Antonsen et al. 2019; Paul et al. 2020), we present the first example of analytic gradient-based optimization of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Elizabeth Paul , Matt Landreman , Thomas Antonsen

This article revolves around shape and topology optimization, in the applicative context where the objective and constraint functionals depend on the solution to a physical boundary value problem posed on the optimized domain. We introduce…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-13 Charles Dapogny , Bruno Levy , Edouard Oudet

An automated algorithm to construct island divertors for stellarators is presented and is used to find divertors that meet heat flux requirements determined by engineering and material limits. The algorithm uses just two initial conditions:…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Avigdor Veksler , Aaron Bader , Heinke Frerichs , Elizabeth Paul

Optimal transport (OT) defines a powerful framework to compare probability distributions in a geometrically faithful way. However, the practical impact of OT is still limited because of its computational burden. We propose a new class of…

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In this paper, the routing in massive low earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks is studied. When the satellite-to-satellite communication distance is limited, we choose different relay satellites to minimize the latency in a constellation at…

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The DESC stellarator optimization code takes advantage of advanced numerical methods to search the full parameter space much faster than conventional tools. Only a single equilibrium solution is needed at each optimization step thanks to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Daniel Dudt , Rory Conlin , Dario Panici , Egemen Kolemen

Stellarator optimization is a multi-objective, non-convex problem characterized by a complex objective landscape containing many local minima. The solution resulting from a single optimization is highly sensitive to factors such as the…

Due to their capability to reduce turbulent transport in magnetized plasmas, understanding the dynamics of zonal flows is an important problem in the fusion programme. Since the pioneering work by Rosenbluth and Hinton in axisymmetric…

The practice of collider physics typically involves the marginalization of multi-dimensional collider data to uni-dimensional observables relevant for some physics task. In any cases, such as classification or anomaly detection, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-26 Arindam Bhattacharya , Katherine Fraser , Matthew D. Schwartz