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arxiv: 2606.29349 · v1 · pith:ZFQWJG5Z · submitted 2026-06-28 · math-ph · math.MP

PDE-constrained optimization for virtual sensing in structural dynamics: Full-field displacement and force recovery from sparse sensors

Minjae Kim , Jaehwan Jeong , Jaemin Kim This is my paper

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keywords PDE-constrained optimizationvirtual sensingstructural dynamicselastodynamicsinverse problemfull-field reconstructionsparse sensorsfinite element method
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PDE-constrained optimization recovers full-field displacements and forces from sparse sensors by enforcing the elastodynamic equation as a constraint.

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This paper formulates virtual sensing as a PDE-constrained optimization problem in which the governing elastodynamic equation acts as an equality constraint and the applied force distribution serves as the optimization variable. The framework jointly recovers consistent full-field displacements and forces that satisfy both the physics and the sparse sensor data. Gradients of the Tikhonov-regularized objective are obtained via reverse-mode automatic differentiation through the forward PDE solver, with L-BFGS used to find the optimum. The method is tested on a cantilever plate, a 90-degree elbow pipe, and a reactor pressure vessel model, where it reduces displacement errors by factors of 2 to 17 relative to modal expansion while reaching sub-percent accuracy.

Core claim

By casting virtual sensing as an optimization problem with the elastodynamic PDE as an equality constraint and the force as the variable to be determined, the framework recovers full-field displacements and forces that satisfy both the physics and the sparse data, achieving sub-percent accuracy and outperforming modal methods by factors of 2 to 17 in displacement error.

What carries the argument

PDE-constrained optimization in which the elastodynamic equation serves as an equality constraint, the force distribution is the optimization variable, and gradients are computed by reverse-mode automatic differentiation through the PDE solver.

If this is right

  • Displacement recovery errors are reduced by factors of 2 to 17 compared to modal expansion across all tested geometries.
  • Force distributions are recovered simultaneously through the PDE constraint rather than derived from truncated modal coordinates.
  • Sub-percent accuracy is obtained on complex geometries including a representative reactor pressure vessel.
  • GPU acceleration through the JAX stage offsets the computational cost of the optimization relative to CPU implementations.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same constrained-optimization structure could be applied to other linear PDE-governed systems such as heat conduction or acoustics if the forward solver is available.
  • When independent full-field data become available, the recovered force fields could serve as an additional consistency check beyond displacement error alone.
  • Real-time deployment would require further reduction of the online solve time or warm-starting strategies for successive time windows.

Load-bearing premise

The elastodynamic PDE is assumed to be an exact and complete model of the structure with no modeling error, and the Tikhonov-regularized inverse problem is assumed to admit a unique physically meaningful solution from the given sparse measurements.

What would settle it

Application of the method to a physical structure whose material properties, boundary conditions, or damping deviate from those assumed in the PDE model, followed by comparison of recovered fields against independent full-field measurements.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.29349 by Jaehwan Jeong, Jaemin Kim, Minjae Kim.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Schematic of virtual sensing via physics-based digital twin. Left (physical twin): a reactor pressure vessel instrumented with sparse [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Flowchart of the PDE-CO framework for full-field inference. O [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Cantilever plate: problem geometry. The plate is fully clamped at [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Cantilever plate: full-field recovery comparison. Upper row: displacement magnitude — (a) reference, (b) modal expansion, (c) PDE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Cantilever plate: quantitative performance comparison. (a) Relative displacement error [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Bent 90◦ elbow pipe: problem geometry. The top end is fully clamped (green ring); eight acceleration sensors (blue dots) are placed on the outer surface — four on the upper straight segment and four symmetrically on the lower straight segment; a uniform negative z-direction distributed force (red arrows) is applied across the entire free-end cross-section. Material and geometric properties are listed in th… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Bent 90◦ elbow pipe: full-field recovery comparison. Upper row: displacement magnitude — (a) reference, (b) modal expansion, (c) PDE-CO. Lower row: recovered force magnitude — (d) reference (ring concentrated on the free-end cross-section), (e) modal expansion (diffuse, spurious distribution spread along the pipe body), (f) PDE-CO (concentrated near the free-end region, consistent with reference). PDE-CO y… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Bent 90◦ elbow pipe: quantitative performance comparison. (a) DOF-wise relative displacement error (top 200 DOFs): PDE-CO (blue, ϵu = 0.28%) consistently outperforms modal expansion (red, 1.11%). (b) L-BFGS convergence: J(θ) decreases by ∼7 orders of magnitude over 200 iterations but does not fully converge within the budget. vessel are transmitted through the inner surface (e.g., fluid pressure, jet impin… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Reactor pressure vessel (RPV): problem geometry. Left: outer surface view with 36 acceleration sensors (blue dots) arranged in a 6 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Reactor pressure vessel (RPV): full-field recovery comparison. Upper row: displacement magnitude — (a) reference, (b) modal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Reactor pressure vessel (RPV): quantitative performance comparison. (a) DOF-wise relative displacement error (top 200 DOFs): PDE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_11.png] view at source ↗
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Virtual sensing -- recovering full-field structural response from sparse sensor measurements -- is a fundamental challenge in structural health monitoring. This study formulates virtual sensing as a PDE-constrained optimization (PDE-CO) problem, where the governing elastodynamic equation serves as an equality constraint, the applied force distribution is the optimization variable, and the full-field displacement and force are jointly recovered. Gradients of the Tikhonov-regularized objective are computed via reverse-mode automatic differentiation through the forward PDE solver, and L-BFGS iteratively finds the optimal state. The framework couples an offline FEniCSx stage for finite element assembly with an online GPU-accelerated JAX stage, and is verified on three examples of increasing complexity: a cantilever plate, a $90^\circ$ elbow pipe, and a reactor pressure vessel (RPV) representative of a 300~MW pressurized nuclear reactor. PDE-CO consistently outperforms modal expansion across all three cases, reducing displacement errors by factors of $2$ to $17\times$ with sub-percent accuracy on every example. Unlike modal expansion, where force is derived by back-calculation from truncated modal coordinates and is not jointly optimized, PDE-CO recovers displacement and force simultaneously through the PDE constraint; the increased computational cost is offset by GPU acceleration delivering up to $64.8\times$ speedup over CPU.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper formulates virtual sensing as a PDE-constrained optimization problem in which the linear elastodynamic PDE is imposed as an equality constraint, the force distribution is the decision variable, and full-field displacement and force are recovered jointly via Tikhonov-regularized L-BFGS minimization with gradients obtained by reverse-mode automatic differentiation. The method is implemented by coupling an offline FEniCSx finite-element stage with an online JAX/GPU stage and is demonstrated on three synthetic examples of increasing geometric complexity (cantilever plate, 90° elbow pipe, reactor pressure vessel). The central claim is that PDE-CO reduces displacement error by factors of 2–17× relative to modal expansion while achieving sub-percent accuracy on every example.

Significance. If the performance advantage survives modeling mismatch, the joint PDE-constrained recovery of displacement and force would be a useful addition to structural-health-monitoring toolkits. The hybrid FEniCSx–JAX implementation and explicit GPU timing results are concrete strengths that support reproducibility of the computational workflow.

major comments (2)
  1. [Numerical examples (the three cases described in the abstract and §4)] All three numerical examples generate the synthetic sensor data by solving exactly the same linear elastodynamic PDE (identical geometry, material properties, boundary conditions, and forcing) that is subsequently enforced as the equality constraint in the optimization. Because the inverse problem is therefore well-posed by construction once Tikhonov regularization is applied, the reported 2–17× error reductions cannot be interpreted as evidence that the same advantage will persist when the true structure deviates from the model (unmodeled damping, spatially varying moduli, geometric imperfections, or sensor-noise statistics not captured by the forward operator). This verification gap directly affects the headline claim of consistent outperformance.
  2. [Optimization formulation and numerical results] The Tikhonov regularization parameter is listed as a free hyper-parameter whose value is not derived from first principles. The sub-percent accuracy figures and the factor-of-2–17 improvement are therefore conditional on a specific choice of this parameter; no sensitivity study or a-priori selection rule is supplied that would allow the reader to assess how much of the reported gain is attributable to favorable tuning versus the PDE constraint itself.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract and §3] The abstract states that force is recovered simultaneously through the PDE constraint, yet the precise definition of the force variable (distributed body force versus boundary traction) and its discretization are not restated in the results section; a short clarifying sentence would remove ambiguity when comparing to modal-expansion force back-calculation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major point below, acknowledging where the examples are verification studies and where additional analysis can strengthen the presentation.

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  1. Referee: [Numerical examples (the three cases described in the abstract and §4)] All three numerical examples generate the synthetic sensor data by solving exactly the same linear elastodynamic PDE (identical geometry, material properties, boundary conditions, and forcing) that is subsequently enforced as the equality constraint in the optimization. Because the inverse problem is therefore well-posed by construction once Tikhonov regularization is applied, the reported 2–17× error reductions cannot be interpreted as evidence that the same advantage will persist when the true structure deviates from the model (unmodeled damping, spatially varying moduli, geometric imperfections, or sensor-noise statistics not captured by the forward operator). This verification gap directly affects the headline claim of consistent outperformance.

    Authors: We agree that the three examples constitute verification studies in which sensor data are generated from the identical PDE later used as the equality constraint. This controlled setting isolates the contribution of the PDE constraint and joint recovery of displacement and force, yielding the reported 2–17× error reductions relative to modal expansion under exact model match. The manuscript’s claims are confined to these synthetic cases; we do not assert robustness to model mismatch. A clarifying sentence will be added to §4 and the discussion to state explicitly that the results are verification results on consistent forward/inverse models. The PDE-CO formulation itself remains applicable to approximate models, but quantitative performance under mismatch is outside the scope of the present work. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Optimization formulation and numerical results] The Tikhonov regularization parameter is listed as a free hyper-parameter whose value is not derived from first principles. The sub-percent accuracy figures and the factor-of-2–17 improvement are therefore conditional on a specific choice of this parameter; no sensitivity study or a-priori selection rule is supplied that would allow the reader to assess how much of the reported gain is attributable to favorable tuning versus the PDE constraint itself.

    Authors: The regularization parameter λ is chosen empirically for each example to achieve the reported accuracy. We will add a short sensitivity study (new figure or table in §4) showing displacement and force error versus λ for the cantilever-plate case, together with a brief statement that, in the absence of ground truth, λ may be selected by the discrepancy principle or cross-validation on held-out sensors. This addition will make the dependence on λ explicit without altering the core claims. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; method and validation are self-contained

full rationale

The paper formulates virtual sensing as a PDE-constrained optimization problem that treats the standard linear elastodynamic PDE as an external equality constraint, recovers force and displacement jointly via Tikhonov-regularized L-BFGS with reverse-mode AD, and compares against modal expansion on three synthetic examples. No equation or claim reduces to a fitted parameter renamed as a prediction, no self-citation supplies a load-bearing uniqueness theorem, and no ansatz is smuggled in; the numerical tests use data generated from the same PDE only to verify consistency when the model is exact, which is a standard and independent check against the modal baseline rather than a tautological reduction of the reported error-reduction factors. The derivation therefore rests on externally known PDEs and off-the-shelf solvers without internal circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim depends on the elastodynamic PDE being an accurate forward model and on the existence of a well-posed regularized inverse problem; the only explicit free parameter mentioned is the Tikhonov weight.

free parameters (1)
  • Tikhonov regularization parameter
    Controls the smoothness penalty in the objective function of the PDE-constrained optimization.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The structure obeys the linear elastodynamic PDE without modeling error.
    This PDE is imposed as the equality constraint that links the unknown force to the observed displacements.

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