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Publications and source records attributed to Francesco Lucchini.
A Block Structure Preserving Model Order Reduction approach is proposed for Integral Equations methods based on the Augmented Electric Field Integral Equation. This approach allows for representing the unknown fields with dedicated subspaces. Numerical results show that this leads to smaller reduced-order models and higher accuracy.
Efficient modeling of High Temperature Superconductors (HTSs) is crucial for real-time quench monitoring; however, full-order electromagnetic simulations remain prohibitively costly due to the strong nonlinearities. Conventional projection-based reduced-order modeling pipelines for nonlinear problems, such as Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD)-Discrete Empirical Interpolation Method (DEIM), alleviate this cost but often require intrusive access to the Full Order Model (FOM) operators and a substantial number of interpolation points for hyperreduction. This work investigates reduced-order strategies for Integral Equation Method (IEM) of (HTS) systems. We present the first application of POD-DEIM to IEM-based HTS models, and introduce a Structured Neural Ordinary Differential Equation (Neural ODE) approach that learns nonlinear dynamics directly in the reduced space. The benchmark results show that Neural ODE outperforms POD-DEIM both in efficiency and accuracy, highlighting its potential for real-time simulations of superconductors.
The real-time monitoring of the structural displacement of the Vacuum Vessel (VV) of thermonuclear fusion devices caused by electromagnetic (EM) loads is of great interest. In this paper, Model Order Reduction (MOR) is applied to the Integral Equation Methods (IEM) and the Finite Elements Method (FEM) to develop Electromagnetic and Structural Reduced Order Models (ROMs) compatible with real-time execution which allows for the real-time monitoring of strain and displacement in critical positions of Tokamaks machines. Low-rank compression techniques based on hierarchical matrices are applied to reduce the computational cost during the offline stage when the ROMs are constructed. Numerical results show the accuracy of the approach and demonstrate the compatibility with real-time execution in standard hardware.