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cond-mat.soft2026

Non-Destructive Detection of Early Drought Stress via Spectral Submanifold Analysis

Sunghwan Jung, Isabella Thiel, Jisoo Yuk +1

Non-destructive early detection of water stress is critical for precision agriculture, yet current detection methods are often labor-intensive or destructive. We propose a rapid, n…

math.DS2023★ 1 cited

Nonautonomous Spectral Submanifolds for Model Reduction of Nonlinear Mechanical Systems under Parametric Resonance

Thomas Thurnher, George Haller, Shobhit Jain

We use the recent theory of Spectral Submanifolds (SSM) for model reduction of nonlinear mechanical systems subject to parametric excitations. Specifically, we develop expressions…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Variational construction of tubular and toroidal streamsurfaces for flow visualization

Mingwu Li, Bálint Kaszás, George Haller

Approximate streamsurfaces of a 3D velocity field have recently been constructed as isosurfaces of the closest first integral of the velocity field. Such approximate streamsurfaces…

math.DS2023★ 43 cited

Nonlinear Model Reduction to Fractional and Mixed-Mode Spectral Submanifolds

George Haller, Bálint Kaszás, Aihui Liu +1

A primary spectral submanifold (SSM) is the unique smoothest nonlinear continuation of a nonresonant spectral subspace of a dynamical system linearized at a fixed point. Passin…

physics.flu-dyn2023★ 1 cited

Interplay between advective, diffusive, and active barriers in Rayleigh-Bénard flow

Nikolas Aksamit, Robert Hartmann, Detlef Lohse +1

Our understanding of the material organization of complex fluid flows has recently benefited from mathematical developments in the theory of objective coherent structures. These me…

math.DS2023

Model reduction for nonlinearizable dynamics via delay-embedded spectral submanifolds

Joar Axås, George Haller

Delay embedding is a commonly employed technique in a wide range of data-driven model reduction methods for dynamical systems, including the Dynamic mode decomposition (DMD), the H…

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 12 cited

The Objective Deformation Component of a Velocity Field

Bálint Kaszás, Tiemo Pedergnana, George Haller

For an arbitrary velocity field defined on a finite, fixed spatial domain, we find the closest rigid-body velocity field to in the …

physics.flu-dyn2022★ 7 cited

Approximate streamsurfaces for flow visualization

Stergios Katsanoulis, Florian Kogelbauer, Roshan Kaundinya +2

Instantaneous features of three-dimensional velocity fields are most directly visualized via streamsurfaces. It is generally unclear, however, which streamsurfaces one should pick…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Data-Driven Spectral Submanifold Reduction for Nonlinear Optimal Control of High-Dimensional Robots

John Irvin Alora, Mattia Cenedese, Edward Schmerling +2

Modeling and control of high-dimensional, nonlinear robotic systems remains a challenging task. While various model- and learning-based approaches have been proposed to address the…

math.OC2022

Using Spectral Submanifolds for Nonlinear Periodic Control

Florian Mahlknecht, John Irvin Alora, Shobhit Jain +4

Very high dimensional nonlinear systems arise in many engineering problems due to semi-discretization of the governing partial differential equations, e.g. through finite element m…

math.DS2022★ 45 cited

Model reduction for constrained mechanical systems via spectral submanifolds

Mingwu Li, Shobhit Jain, George Haller

Dynamical systems are often subject to algebraic constraints in conjunction to their governing ordinary differential equations. In particular, multibody systems are commonly subjec…

math.DS2022

Fast data-driven model reduction for nonlinear dynamical systems

Joar Axås, Mattia Cenedese, George Haller

We present a fast method for nonlinear data-driven model reduction of dynamical systems onto their slowest nonresonant spectral submanifolds (SSMs). We use observed data to locate…

physics.flu-dyn2022

Dynamics-based machine learning of transitions in Couette flow

Bálint Kaszás, Mattia Cenedese, George Haller

We derive low-dimensional, data-driven models for transitions among exact coherent states (ECSs) in one of the most studied canonical shear flows, the plane Couette flow. These one…

math.DS2022★ 170 cited

Data-Driven Modeling and Prediction of Non-Linearizable Dynamics via Spectral Submanifolds

Mattia Cenedese, Joar Axås, Bastian Bäuerlein +2

We develop a methodology to construct low-dimensional predictive models from data sets representing essentially nonlinear (or non-linearizable) dynamical systems with a hyperbolic…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 13 cited

Quasi-Objective Eddy Visualization from Sparse Drifter Data

Alex P. Encinas Bartos, Nikolas O. Aksamit, George Haller

We employ a recently developed single-trajectory Lagrangian diagnostic tool, the trajectory rotation average , to visualize oceanic vortices (or eddies…

math.DS2021★ 55 cited

Data-driven Nonlinear Model Reduction to Spectral Submanifolds in Mechanical Systems

Mattia Cenedese, Joar Axås, Haocheng Yang +2

While data-driven model reduction techniques are well-established for linearizable mechanical systems, general approaches to reducing non-linearizable systems with multiple coexist…

math.DS2021★ 63 cited

Nonlinear analysis of forced mechanical systems with internal resonance using spectral submanifolds, Part II: Bifurcation and quasi-periodic response

Mingwu Li, George Haller

In Part I of this paper, we have used spectral submanifold (SSM) theory to construct reduced-order models for harmonically excited mechanical systems with internal resonances. In t…

physics.flu-dyn2021★ 18 cited

Objective Momentum Barriers in Wall Turbulence

Nikolas O. Aksamit, George Haller

We use the recent frame-indifferent theory of diffusive momentum transport to identify internal barriers in wall-bounded turbulence. Formed by the invariant manifolds of the Laplac…

math.DS2021★ 79 cited

Nonlinear analysis of forced mechanical systems with internal resonance using spectral submanifolds, Part I: Periodic response and forced response curve

Mingwu Li, Shobhit Jain, George Haller

We show how spectral submanifold theory can be used to construct reduced-order models for harmonically excited mechanical systems with internal resonances. Efficient calculations o…

cs.CE2021★ 139 cited

How to Compute Invariant Manifolds and their Reduced Dynamics in High-Dimensional Finite-Element Models

Shobhit Jain, George Haller

Invariant manifolds are important constructs for the quantitative and qualitative understanding of nonlinear phenomena in dynamical systems. In nonlinear damped mechanical systems,…

cs.CE2020★ 4 cited

Integral Equations & Model Reduction For Fast Computation of Nonlinear Periodic Response

Gergely Buza, George Haller, Shobhit Jain

We propose a reformulation for the integral equations approach of Jain, Breunung \& Haller [Nonlinear Dyn. 97, 313--341 (2019)] to steady-state response computation for periodicall…

math.DS2020★ 16 cited

Using Spectral Submanifolds for Optimal Mode Selection in Model Reduction

Gergely Buza, Shobhit Jain, George Haller

Model reduction of large nonlinear systems often involves the projection of the governing equations onto linear subspaces spanned by carefully-selected modes. The criteria to selec…

nlin.CD2020★ 8 cited

Universal Upper Estimate for Prediction Errors under Moderate Model Uncertainty

Bálint Kaszás, George Haller

We derive universal upper estimates for model-prediction error under moderate but otherwise unknown model uncertainty. Our estimates give upper bounds on the leading order trajecto…

math.DS2020★ 8 cited

Stability of Forced-Damped Response in Mechanical Systems from a Melnikov Analysis

Mattia Cenedese, George Haller

Frequency responses of multi-degree-of-freedom mechanical systems with weak forcing and damping can be studied as perturbations from their conservative limit. Specifically, recent…