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We propose a $k^{\rm th}$-order unfitted finite element method ($2\le k\le 4$) to solve the moving interface problem of the Oseen equations. Thorough error estimates for the discrete solutions are presented by considering errors from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Chuwen Ma , Weiying Zheng

In a wide range of applications it is desirable to optimally control a dynamical system with respect to concurrent, potentially competing goals. This gives rise to a multiobjective optimal control problem where, instead of computing a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Sebastian Peitz , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Michael Dellnitz

In this paper, we present a new control model for optimizing pressure and water quality operations in water distribution networks. Our formulation imposes a set of time-coupling constraints to manage temporal pressure variations, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Bradley Jenks , Aly-Joy Ulusoy , Filippo Pecci , Ivan Stoianov

This work introduces a data-driven, non-intrusive reduced-order modeling (ROM) framework that leverages Optimal Transport (OT) for multi-fidelity and parametric problems in two-phase flows modelling. Building upon the success of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Moaad Khamlich , Niccolò Tonicello , Federico Pichi , Gianluigi Rozza

The present work introduces the hybrid consensus alternating direction method of multipliers (H-CADMM), a novel framework for optimization over networks which unifies existing distributed optimization approaches, including the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Meng Ma , Athanasios N. Nikolakopoulos , Georgios B. Giannakis

This work outlines a new three-dimensional diffuse interface finite volume method for the simulation of multiple solid and fluid components featuring large deformations, sliding and void opening. This is achieved by extending an existing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-06-11 Tim Wallis , Philip T. Barton , Nikolaos Nikiforakis

The purpose of this paper is three-fold. Firstly we attack a nonlinear interface problem on an unbounded domain with nonmonotone set-valued transmission conditions. The investigated problem involves a nonlinear monotone partial differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Joachim Gwinner

In this contribution we develop an efficient reduced order model for solving parametrized linear-quadratic optimal control problems with linear time-varying state system. The fully reduced model combines reduced basis approximations of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-29 Hendrik Kleikamp , Lukas Renelt

We study the mixing in the presence of convective flow in a porous medium. Convection is characterized by the formation of vortices and stagnation points, where the fluid interface is stretched and compressed enhancing mixing. We analyze…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-14 Juan J. Hidalgo , Marco Dentz

A space-time interface-fitted approximation of an inverse source problem for the advection-diffusion equation with moving subdomains is investigated. The problem is reformulated as an optimization problem using Tikhonov regularization. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Thi Thanh Mai Ta , Quang Huy Nguyen , Dinh Nho Hào

A method for density-based topology optimization of heat exchangers with two fluids is proposed. The goal of the optimization process is to maximize the heat transfer from one fluid to the other, under maximum pressure drop constraints for…

Reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow models and sampling from tilted or Boltzmann distributions can both be formulated as stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems, where learning an optimal generative dynamics corresponds to optimizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Carles Domingo-Enrich , Jiequn Han

We consider topologically non-trivial interface Hamiltonians, which find several applications in materials science and geophysical fluid flows. The non-trivial topology manifests itself in the existence of topologically protected,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Guillaume Bal

Understanding the dynamics of phase boundaries in fluids requires quantitative knowledge about the microscale processes at the interface. We consider the sharp-interface motion of compressible two-component flow, and propose a heterogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Jim Magiera , Christian Rohde

An efficient method for solving large nonlinear problems combines Newton solvers and Domain Decomposition Methods (DDM). In the DDM framework, the boundary conditions can be chosen to be primal, dual or mixed. The mixed approach presents…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-02-07 Camille Negrello , Pierre Gosselet , Christian Rey

We present a theoretical method to generate a highly accurate {\em time-independent} Hamiltonian governing the finite-time behavior of a time-periodic system. The method exploits infinitesimal unitary transformation steps, from which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-30 Michael Vogl , Pontus Laurell , Aaron D. Barr , Gregory A. Fiete

This paper proposes an algorithmic technique for a class of optimal control problems where it is easy to compute a pointwise minimizer of the Hamiltonian associated with every applied control. The algorithm operates in the space of relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-10 M. T. Hale , Y. Wardi , H. Jaleel , M. Egerstedt

The present paper aims at providing a numerical strategy to deal with PDE-constrained optimization problems solved with the adjoint method. It is done through out a unified formulation of the constraint PDE and the adjoint model. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Gino I. Montecinos , Juan Lopez-Rios , Jaime H. Ortega , Rodrigo Lecaros

A high-order accurate adjoint-based optimization framework is presented for unsteady multiphysics problems. The fully discrete adjoint solver relies on the high-order, linearly stable, partitioned solver introduced in [1], where different…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-01-01 Daniel Z. Huang , Per-Olof Persson , Matthew J. Zahr

Active proteins and membrane-bound motors exert force dipole flows along fluid interfaces and lipid bilayers. We develop a Hamiltonian framework for the interactions of pusher and puller dipoles embedded in an incompressible two-dimensional…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-27 Sneha Krishnan , Rickmoy Samanta