activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

cs.LG2026

On the definition and importance of interpretability in scientific machine learning

Conor Rowan, Alireza Doostan

Though neural networks trained on large datasets have been successfully used to describe and predict many physical phenomena, there is a sense among scientists that, unlike traditi…

math.OC2026

Learning Gradient Flow: Using Equation Discovery to Accelerate Engineering Optimization

Grant Norman, Conor Rowan, Kurt Maute +1

In this work, we investigate the use of data-driven equation discovery for dynamical systems to model and forecast continuous-time dynamics of unconstrained optimization problems.…

math.NA2025

Boundary condition enforcement with PINNs: a comparative study and verification on 3D geometries

Conor Rowan, Kai Hampleman, Kurt Maute +1

Since their advent nearly a decade ago, physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have been studied extensively as a novel technique for solving forward and inverse problems in phys…

physics.comp-ph2025

Calibrating a Finite-strain Phase-field Model of Fracture for Bonded Granular Materials with Uncertainty Quantification

Abigail C. Schmid, Erik Jensen, Fabio Di Gioacchino +8

To study the mechanical behavior of mock high explosives, an experimental and simulation program was developed to calibrate, with quantified uncertainty, a material model of the bo…

math.NA2025

Solving engineering eigenvalue problems with neural networks using the Rayleigh quotient

Conor Rowan, John Evans, Kurt Maute +1

From characterizing the speed of a thermal system's response to computing natural modes of vibration, eigenvalue analysis is ubiquitous in engineering. In spite of this, eigenvalue…

cs.CE2025

Physics-informed solution reconstruction in elasticity and heat transfer using the explicit constraint force method

Conor Rowan, Kurt Maute, Alireza Doostan

One use case of ``physics-informed neural networks'' (PINNs) is solution reconstruction, which aims to estimate the full-field state of a physical system from sparse measurements.…