8 papers
The SiMPL Method for Multi-Material Topology Optimization
Peter Gangl, Brendan Keith, Dohyun Kim +2
We introduce an efficient and scalable method for density-based multi-material topology optimization, integrating classical mirror descent techniques with point-wise polytopal desi…
Risk-Averse Ensemble Control for Control-Affine Systems
Alessandro Scagliotti, Thomas M. Surowiec
A number of important modern applications in optimal control can be formulated as open loop control problems in which the underlying dynamical systems are subject to random inputs.…
Proximal Galerkin for Phase Field Fracture
Miguel Castillón, Biswajit Khara, Jørgen S. Dokken +3
The phase-field method has emerged as a powerful tool for simulating fracture mechanics, yet it presents significant numerical challenges, particularly regarding the enforcement of…
The latent variable proximal point algorithm for variational problems with inequality constraints
Jørgen S. Dokken, Patrick E. Farrell, Brendan Keith +2
The latent variable proximal point (LVPP) algorithm is a framework for solving infinite-dimensional variational problems with pointwise inequality constraints. The algorithm is a s…
Risk-averse optimal control of random elliptic variational inequalities
Amal Alphonse, Caroline Geiersbach, Michael Hintermüller +1
We consider a risk-averse optimal control problem governed by an elliptic variational inequality (VI) subject to random inputs. By deriving KKT-type optimality conditions for a pen…
A Simple Introduction to the SiMPL Method for Density-Based Topology Optimization
Dohyun Kim, Boyan Stefanov Lazarov, Thomas M. Surowiec +1
We introduce a novel method for solving density-based topology optimization problems: Sigmoidal Mirror descent with a Projected Latent variable (SiMPL). The SiMPL method (pronounce…