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Sarah Katz

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LDDMM stochastic interpolants: an application to domain uncertainty quantification in hemodynamics

We introduce a novel conditional stochastic interpolant framework for generative modeling of three-dimensional shapes. The method builds on a recent LDDMM-based registration approach to learn the conditional drift between geometries. By leveraging the resulting pull-back and push-forward operators, we extend this formulation beyond standard Cartesian grids to complex shapes and random variables defined on distinct domains. We present an application in the context of cardiovascular simulations, where aortic shapes are generated from an initial cohort of patients. The conditioning variable is a latent geometric representation defined by a set of centerline points and the radii of the corresponding inscribed spheres. This methodology facilitates both data augmentation for three-dimensional biomedical shapes, and the generation of random perturbations of controlled magnitude for a given shape. These capabilities are essential for quantifying the impact of domain uncertainties arising from medical image segmentation on the estimation of relevant biomarkers.

stat.ML

POD-ROMs for incompressible flows including snapshots of the temporal derivative of the full order solution: Error bounds for the pressure

Reduced order methods (ROMs) for the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations, based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), are studied that include snapshots which approach the temporal derivative of the velocity from a full order mixed finite element method (FOM). In addition, the set of snapshots contains the mean velocity of the FOM. Both the FOM and the POD-ROM are equipped with a grad-div stabilization. A velocity error analysis for this method can be found already in the literature. The present paper studies two different procedures to compute approximations to the pressure and proves error bounds for the pressure that are independent of inverse powers of the viscosity. Numerical studies support the analytic results and compare both methods.

math.NA

Impact of Turbulence Modeling on the Simulation of Blood Flow in Aortic Coarctation

Numerical simulations of pulsatile blood flow in an aortic coarctation require the use of turbulence modeling. This paper considers three models from the class of large eddy simulation (LES) models (Smagorinsky, Vreman, $\boldsymbolσ$-model) and one model from the class of variational multiscale models (residual-based) within a finite element framework. The influence of these models on the estimation of clinically relevant biomarkers used to assess the degree of severity of the pathological condition (pressure difference, secondary flow degree, normalized flow displacement, wall shear stress) is investigated in detail. The simulations show that most methods are consistent in terms of severity indicators such as pressure difference and stenotic velocity. The numerical results indicate that second order velocity elements outperform first order elements in terms of accuracy. Moreover, using second order velocity finite elements, different turbulence models might lead to considerably different results concerning other clinically relevant quantities such as wall shear stresses. These differences may be attributed to differences in numerical dissipation introduced by the turbulence models.

cs.CE

The AGN Black Hole Mass Database

The AGN Black Hole Mass Database is a compilation of all published spectroscopic reverberation-mapping studies of active galaxies. We have created a public web interface, where users may get the most up-to-date black hole masses from reverberation mapping for any particular active galactic nucleus (AGN), as well as obtain the individual measurements upon which the masses are based and the appropriate references. While the database currently focuses on the measurements necessary for black hole mass determinations, we also plan to expand it in the future to include additional useful information, such as host-galaxy characteristics. New reverberation mapping results will also be incorporated into the database as they are published in peer-refereed journals.

astro-ph.GA