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The SINDy algorithm has been successfully used to identify the governing equations of dynamical systems from time series data. In this paper, we argue that this makes SINDy a potentially useful tool for causal discovery and that existing…

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The sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) is a regression framework for the discovery of parsimonious dynamic models and governing equations from time-series data. As with all system identification methods, noisy measurements…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Kadierdan Kaheman , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz

We leverage data-driven model discovery methods to determine the governing equations for the emergent behavior of heterogeneous networked dynamical systems. Specifically, we consider networks of coupled nonlinear oscillators whose…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Katherine Owens , J. Nathan Kutz

Despite the lack of a shear-rich tachocline region low-mass fully convective stars are capable of generating strong magnetic fields, indicating that a dynamo mechanism fundamentally different from the solar dynamo is at work in these…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 Rakesh K. Yadav , Ulrich R. Christensen , Julien Morin , Thomas Gastine , Ansgar Reiners , Katja Poppenhaeger , Scott J. Wolk

The onset of dynamo action is investigated within the context of a newly developed low Rossby, low magnetic Prandtl number, convection-driven dynamo model. This multiscale model represents an asymptotically exact form of an $\alpha^2$ mean…

Recent progress in autoencoder-based sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) under $\ell_1$ constraints allows joint discoveries of governing equations and latent coordinate systems from spatio-temporal data, including simulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 L. Mars Gao , J. Nathan Kutz

(Abridged) Based on the rapidly increasing all-sky data of Faraday rotation measures and polarised synchrotron radiation, the Milky Way's magnetic field is now modelled with an unprecedented level of detail and complexity. We aim to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Oliver Gressel , Detlef Elstner , Udo Ziegler

An update is given on the current status of solar and stellar dynamos. At present, it is still unclear why stellar cycle frequencies increase with rotation frequency in such a way that their ratio increases with stellar activity. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Axel Brandenburg

We present numerical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of the effect of stellar dipole magnetic fields on line-driven wind outflows from hot, luminous stars. Unlike previous fixed-field analyses, the simulations here take full account…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-05 Asif ud-Doula , Stanley P. Owocki

Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) is a data-driven framework for estimating classical nonlinear dynamical systems from time-series data. In this approach, system dynamics is represented as a linear combination of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Yusei Tateyama , Yuzuru Kato

Rheology plays a pivotal role in understanding the flow behavior of fluids by discovering governing equations that relate deformation and stress, known as constitutive equations. Despite the importance of these equations, current methods…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-06 Takeshi Sato , Souta Miyamoto , Shota Kato

Model parsimony is an important \emph{cognitive bias} in data-driven modelling that aids interpretability and helps to prevent over-fitting. Sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) methods are able to learn sparse…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-26 Max D. Champneys , Timothy J. Rogers

Magnetic fields have been constrained at the surface of several massive and intermediate-mass stars, but their origin and properties in deep stellar radiative interiors are still debated, despite recent detections in the core of some red…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-03 Florentin Daniel , Ludovic Petitdemange , Charly Pinçon , Kévin Belkacem , Bruno Longo , Christophe Gissinger

In this paper we investigate the effectiveness of direct statistical simulation (DSS) for two low-order models of dynamo action. The first model, which is a simple model of solar and stellar dynamo action, is third-order and has cubic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-22 Kuan Li , J. B. Marston , Steven M. Tobias

We use the ASH code to model the convective dynamo of solar-type stars. Based on a series of 15 3-D MHD simulations spanning 4 bins in rotation and mass, we show what mechanisms are at work in these stellar dynamos with and without magnetic…

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Accurate and efficient plasma models are essential to understand and control experimental devices. Existing magnetohydrodynamic or kinetic models are nonlinear, computationally intensive, and can be difficult to interpret, while often only…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Alan A. Kaptanoglu , Kyle D. Morgan , Chris J. Hansen , Steven L. Brunton

We present AC-SINDy, a compositional extension of the Sparse Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics (SINDy) framework that replaces explicit feature libraries with a structured representation based on arithmetic circuits. Rather than…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Peter Racioppo

Despite the recent proliferation of machine learning methods like SINDy that promise automatic discovery of governing equations from time-series data, there remain significant challenges to discovering models from noisy datasets. One reason…

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Dynamical models are used to study dark matter (DM) in galaxies, how galaxies assemble through mergers, and to test galaxy formation models. Despite its widespread use, there has been no systematic study quantifying how much information can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-14 Paula Gherghinescu , Eugene Vasiliev , Payel Das , Justin Read

Interacting particle system (IPS) models have proven to be highly successful for describing the spatial movement of organisms. However, it has proven challenging to infer the interaction rules directly from data. In the field of equation…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Daniel A. Messenger , Graycen E. Wheeler , Xuedong Liu , David M. Bortz