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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"Inverse design"”.
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Aerodynamic inverse design of transonic turbomachinery cascades
An aerodynamic inverse design method for turbomachinery cascades is presented and is implemented in a finite volume method. In this design method, the mass-averaged swirl schedule and the blade thickness distribution are prescribed. The design method then provides the blade shape that would …
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An Inverse Design Method for Supersonic Airfoils
<p>Airfoil design is one of the most important aspects of aircraft design. Slight changes in airfoil geometry can lead to significant changes in a wide variety of aircraft performance metrics. Inverse design methods offer an efficient alternative to standard direct methods. The key to this design …
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Inverse Design of Random Emitters in Nanophotonics
… in conjunction with large-scale optimization (inverse design). In this work, we present a trace formulation of random emitters that can be efficiently combined with inverse design, even for topology optimization over thousands of design degrees of freedom. We begin with a trivial case where the …
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Direct and inverse design of microstructured optical fibres
Microstructured optical fibres, where an arrangement of air holes running longitudinally along the fibre guides light in either a solid or a hollow core, have created new opportunities in diverse areas of science and technology. Applications range from the generation of supercontinuum light to …
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A general inverse design procedure for aerodynamic bodies
A general inverse design procedure has been developed to use optimization techniques and generic surface descriptions for the purpose of aerodynamic shape design. A variety of flow regimes are examined from 2-D inviscid, subsonic cases to 3-D turbulent, supersonic problems. Surface descriptions …
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Towards data-driven inverse design for materials and structures
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms
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Inverse design of self-assembling colloids via landscape engineering
… driving assembly phenomena and drive towards a design framework capable of rationally manipulating the free energy landscape for self-assembly to derive building blocks that preferentially form into a target aggregate structure. The methodologies derived within are applicable to a wide class of …
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Implementation of Residual Tandem Neural Networks for Photonic Inverse Design
… approaches can greatly benefit the modeling and design of nanophotonic and optical structures. Traditional full-wave simulations are time and resource-intensive, which can act as a bottleneck in photonic design. On the other hand, deep-learning approaches for designing the response of …
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A Hybrid Inverse Design Method for Complex Aerodynamic and Hydrodynamic Geometries
… demonstrate how the method can be applied to the design of geometries consisting of several components. The method was able to produce the desired aerodynamic and geometric characteristics for all the example cases. It was also able to complete each design stage in less than 10 minutes---an …
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A consistent direct-iterative inverse design method for the Euler equations
… is proposed for the solution of the aerodynamic inverse design problem. Direct-iterative methods couple analysis and shape modification methods to iteratively determine the geometry required to support a target surface pressure. The proposed method includes a consistent shape modification method …
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Inverse Design and Optimization Methods for Thermophotovoltaic Emitters made of Tungsten Gratings
Periodic gratings utilized as emitters increase the efficiency of thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems. These gratings work by altering the emittance spectrum incident on the photovoltaic cell to better match the band gap of the cell. Photons at slightly higher energies than the band gap are the most …
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DDA-based Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Metasurfaces: a Benchmarking of Optimization Techniques
… the optimization techniques used for metasurface inverse design in the field of nanophotonics. Each technique is detailed and implemented, comparing and contrasting the results produced by the numerical methods. A unique DDA solver is used to speed up the computation of the electromagnetic fields, …
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Computational Multi-material Inverse Design of Soft Robotic Actuators via Nonlinear Functional Optimization
… a new physics-based method for the computational design of soft hyperelastic robotic actuators to address this problem. The method takes as input an undeformed robot shape, a specified external load, and a user desired final shape. It then solves an inverse problem in design using nonlinear …
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Physics-informed machine learning for the modeling and inverse design of microwave devices
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Optimization and Supervised Machine Learning Methods for Inverse Design of Cellular Mechanical Metamaterials
… material hierarchy facilitates the synthesis and design of CMMs on the micro-scale to achieve enhanced properties (i.e., improved strength, toughness, low density) on the component (macro)-scale. However, designing on-demand cellular metamaterials usually requires solving a challenging inverse …
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Accelerating Material Inverse Design in High-Dimensional Continuous Spaces with Autonomous Machine Learning Ecosystems
Modeling and designing materials at the nanoscale is essential for advancing new technologies in crucial areas such as energy, electronics, and catalysis. By gaining control over structure at the atomic level, we can now pursue inverse design, where the goal is to start from a desired property and …
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Smart Cities: Inverse Design of 3D Urban Procedural Models with Traffic and Weather Simulation
Urbanization, the demographic transition from rural to urban, has changed how we envision and share the world. From just one-fourth of the population living in cities one hundred years ago, now more than half of the population does, and this ratio is expected to grow in the near future. Creating …
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Numerical Simulation and Inverse Design of Solid Rocket Motors with Non Uniform Ballistic Properties
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Systematic inverse design and physical realization of nonlinear elastic and thermoelastic responses for metamaterials
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Generative Adversarial Networks for Inverse Design Problems in Engineering: Methods to handle performance, constraints, and creativity requirements
Engineering design tasks often require synthesizing new designs that meet desired performance requirements. The conventional design process, which requires iterative optimization and performance evaluation, is slow and dependent on initial designs. Automating this process in its entirety, therefore …
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