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20142026
most citedPhysics-informed graph neural Galerkin networks: A unified framework for solving PDE-governed forward and inverse problems

313 citations · 704 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.CE2026

Feature tracking in physics-informed neural networks via joint optimization of nonlinear deformation manifolds: application to shocks

Akshay Thakur, Matthew Zahr

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) often converge to inaccurate solutions for conservation laws with shocks, because uniformly distributed collocation points undersample loca…

stat.ML2025

Scalable h-adaptive probabilistic solver for time-independent and time-dependent systems

Akshay Thakur, Sawan Kumar, Matthew Zahr +1

Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) within the framework of probabilistic numerics offers a principled approach to quantifying epistemic uncertainty arising from discreti…

math.NA2025

An -adaptive method for accurate resolution of shock-dominated viscous flow based on implicit shock tracking

Huijing Dong, Masayuki Yano, Tianci Huang +1

This work introduces an optimization-based -adaptive numerical method to approximate solutions of viscous, shock-dominated flows using implicit shock tracking and a high-order…

math.NA2025

Model reduction of convection-dominated viscous conservation laws using implicit feature tracking and landmark image registration

Victor Zucatti, Matthew J. Zahr

Reduced-order models (ROMs) remain generally unreliable for convection-dominated problems, such as those encountered in hypersonic flows, due to the slowly decaying Kolmogorov -…

physics.comp-ph2025

An implicit shock tracking method for simulation of shock-dominated flows over complex domains using mesh-based parametrizations

Alexander M. Perez Reyes, Matthew J. Zahr

A mesh-based parametrization is a parametrization of a geometric object that is defined solely from a mesh of the object, e.g., without an analytical expression or computer-aided d…

physics.flu-dyn2025

A sharp-interface discontinuous Galerkin method for simulation of two-phase flow of real gases based on implicit shock tracking

Charles Naudet, Brian Taylor, Matthew J. Zahr

We present a high-order, sharp-interface method for simulation of two-phase flow of real gases using implicit shock tracking. The method is based on a phase-field formulation of tw…

math.NA2025★ 1 cited

Neural network-based Godunov corrections for approximate Riemann solvers using bi-fidelity learning

Akshay Thakur, Matthew J. Zahr

The Riemann problem is fundamental in the computational modeling of hyperbolic partial differential equations, enabling the development of stable and accurate upwind schemes. While…

math.OC2024

An augmented Lagrangian trust-region method with inexact gradient evaluations to accelerate constrained optimization problems using model hyperreduction

Tianshu Wen, Matthew J. Zahr

We present an augmented Lagrangian trust-region method to efficiently solve constrained optimization problems governed by large-scale nonlinear systems with application to partial…

math.NA2024

Preconditioned iterative solvers for constrained high-order implicit shock tracking methods

Jakob Vandergrift, Matthew J. Zahr

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order numerical methods that use numerical optimization to simultaneously compute a high-order approximation to a co…

math.NA2024★ 1 cited

Symmetric, Optimization-based, Cross-element Compatible Nodal Distributions for High-order Finite Elements

Julian M. Kaufmann, Matthew J. Zahr

We present a general framework to construct symmetric, well-conditioned, cross-element compatible nodal distributions that can be used for high-order and high-dimensional finite el…

math.NA2023

An adaptive model reduction method leveraging locally supported basis functions

Han Gao, Matthew J. Zahr

We propose a new method, the continuous Galerkin method with globally and locally supported basis functions (CG-GL), to address the parametric robustness issues of reduced-order mo…

math.NA2023

A space-time high-order implicit shock tracking method for shock-dominated unsteady flows

Charles J. Naudet, Matthew J. Zahr

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features b…

math.NA2023

Accelerated solutions of convection-dominated partial differential equations using implicit feature tracking and empirical quadrature

Marzieh Alireza Mirhoseini, Matthew J. Zahr

This work introduces an empirical quadrature-based hyperreduction procedure and greedy training algorithm to effectively reduce the computational cost of solving convection-dominat…

math.NA2023★ 2 cited

High-order implicit shock tracking boundary conditions for flows with parametrized shocks

Tianci Huang, Charles Naudet, Matthew J. Zahr

High-order implicit shock tracking (fitting) is a class of high-order, optimization-based numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features b…

math.NA2023★ 1 cited

An adaptive, training-free reduced-order model for convection-dominated problems based on hybrid snapshots

Victor Zucatti, Matthew J. Zahr

The vast majority of reduced-order models (ROMs) first obtain a low dimensional representation of the problem from high-dimensional model (HDM) training data which is afterwards us…

math.OC2022★ 10 cited

A globally convergent method to accelerate large-scale optimization using on-the-fly model hyperreduction: application to shape optimization

Tianshu Wen, Matthew J. Zahr

We present a numerical method to efficiently solve optimization problems governed by large-scale nonlinear systems of equations, including discretized partial differential equation…

math.NA2021

Model reduction of convection-dominated partial differential equations via optimization-based implicit feature tracking

Marzieh Alireza Mirhoseini, Matthew J. Zahr

This work introduces a new approach to reduce the computational cost of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) with convection-dominated solutions: model reduction with impl…

math.NA2021

Accurate quantification of blood flow wall shear stress using simulation-based imaging: a synthetic, comparative study

Charles J. Naudet, Johannes Toger, Matthew J. Zahr

Simulation-based imaging (SBI) is a blood flow imaging technique that optimally fits a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation to low-resolution, noisy magnetic resonance (MR…

cs.CE2021★ 313 cited

Physics-informed graph neural Galerkin networks: A unified framework for solving PDE-governed forward and inverse problems

Han Gao, Matthew J. Zahr, Jian-Xun Wang

Despite the great promise of the physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) in solving forward and inverse problems, several technical challenges are present as roadblocks for more c…

math.NA2021★ 36 cited

A robust, high-order implicit shock tracking method for simulation of complex, high-speed flows

Tianci Huang, Matthew J. Zahr

High-order implicit shock tracking is a new class of numerical methods to approximate solutions of conservation laws with non-smooth features. These methods align elements of the c…

math.NA2021★ 19 cited

Implicit shock tracking for unsteady flows by the method of lines

Andrew Shi, Per-Olof Persson, Matthew Zahr

A recently developed high-order implicit shock tracking (HOIST) framework for resolving discontinuous solutions of inviscid, steady conservation laws [41, 43] is extended to the un…

cs.CE2020★ 13 cited

Preserving general physical properties in model reduction of dynamical systems via constrained-optimization projection

A. Schein, K. T. Carlberg, M. J. Zahr

Model-reduction techniques aim to reduce the computational complexity of simulating dynamical systems by applying a (Petrov-)Galerkin projection process that enforces the dynamics…

math.NA2020★ 27 cited

A globally convergent method to accelerate topology optimization using on-the-fly model reduction

Masayuki Yano, Tianci Huang, Matthew J. Zahr

We present a globally convergent method to accelerate density-based topology optimization using projection-based reduced-order models (ROMs) and trust-region methods. To accelerate…

math.NA2019★ 70 cited

Implicit shock tracking using an optimization-based high-order discontinuous Galerkin method

Matthew J. Zahr, Andrew Shi, Per-Olof Persson

A novel framework for resolving discontinuous solutions of conservation laws, e.g., contact lines, shock waves, and interfaces, using implicit tracking and a high-order discontinuo…