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Publications submitted 

  1. Mihai Anitescu and John Birge." Convergence of stochastic average approximation for stochastic optimization problems with mixed expectation and per-scenario constraints". Preprint ANL/MCS 1562-1108. PDF Version. Submitted to Optimization Research Letters.
  2. Victor Zavala and Mihai Anitescu. On-Line Nonlinear Programming as a Generalized Equation. Preprint ANL/MCS-P1641-0609. PDF version. Submitted to SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
  3. Emil Constantinescu, Victor Zavala, Matthew Rocklin, Sangmin Lee, and Mihai Anitescu. A Computational Framework for Uncertainty Quantification and Stochastic Optimization in Unit Commitment with Wind Power Generation. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Power Systems.
  4. Victor M. Zavala, Emil M. Constantinescu, and Mihai Anitescu. Economic Impacts of Advanced Weather Forecasting in Energy System Operations. Submitted to the IEEE-PES conference.PDF Version.


Publications in print

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Journal papers

 

  1. Alessandro Tasora and Mihai Anitescu. A Convex Complementarity Approach for Simulating Large Granular Flow. Preprint ANL/MCS-P1592-0309. PDF version To appear in Journal of Computational Nonlinear Dynamics.
  2. Oleg Roderick, Mihai Anitescu, and Paul Fischer. "Stochastic finite element approaches using derivative information for uncertainty quantification" Preprint ANL/MCS 1551-1008. PDF version. To appear in Nuclear Science and Engineering.
  3. Victor Zavala, Emil Constantinescu, Theodore Krause, and Mihai Anitescu." On-line economic optimization of energy systems using weather forecast information." Preprint ANL/MCS P1588-0309. PDF Version. To appear in Journal of Process Control. DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2009.07.004
  4. David Stewart and Mihai Anitescu. Optimal Control of Systems with Discontinuous Differential Equations. Preprint number: ANL/MCS-P1258-0605, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, June 2005, revised 2007, 2008.To appear in Numerische Mathematik. DOI: 10.1007/s00211-009-0262-2
  5. Mihai Anitescu and Sanghyun Park."Short Communication: A Linear Assignment Approach for the Least-Squares Protein Morphing Problem Short Communication: A linear programming approach for the least-squares protein morphing problem". To appear in Mathematical Programming. DOI: 10.1007/s10107-009-0269-6
  6. M Anitescu, A. Tasora. "An iterative approach for cone complementarity problems for nonsmooth dynamics". To appear in Computational Optimization and Applications. Electronic version DOI : 10.1007/s10589-008-9223-4
  7. Kyle Schmitt, Mihai Anitescu and Dan Negrut. "Efficient Sampling of Dynamical Systems with Spatial Uncertainty" International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering ( IJNME).Volume 80(5), Pages 537-564, 2009. Electronic verion DOI: 10.1002/nme.2649 Also, preprint ANL/MCS -P1539-0908
  8. Cosmin Petra, Bogdan Gavrea, Mihai Anitescu, and Florian Potra. "A computational study of the use of an optimization-based method for simulating large multibody systems ". Optimization Methods and Software (2009). Volume 24(6), Pages 871--894, 2009. Electronic version, DOI: 10.1080/10556780902806094.  
  9. Oleg Roderick, Mihai Anitescu, Paul Fischer, Won-Sik Yang. "Stochastic Finite-Element Approach in Nuclear Reactor Uncertainty Quantification".Transactions of American Nuclear Society, volume 100, pages 317-318 (2009). Preprint ANL/MCS-P1574-0109 .PDF version.
  10. M. Anitescu. Spectral Stochastic Finite Element Methods for Parametric Constrained Optimization Problems. SIAM Journal of Numerical Analysis 47, Issue 3, pp. 1739-1759 (2009). Electronic version; DOI 10.1137/060676374. Preprint ANL/MCS-P1379-1006. 
  11. Xiaoyan Zeng, Mihai Anitescu, Candido Pereira, and Monica Regalbuto.  "A Framework for Chemical Plant Safety Assessment Under Uncertainty ". Studies in Informatics and Control. Volume 18(1), Pages 5-20, (2009) Electronic Version.  
  12. M. Anitescu, D. Negrut, A. El-Azab, and P. Zapol, A note on the regularity of reduced models obtained by nonlocal quasicontinuum-like approaches, Mathematical Programming, Volume 118, Number 2, Pages 207-236, 2009. DOI  10.1007/s10107-007-0188-3
  13. Jaydeep Bardhan, Matt Knepley and Mihai Anitescu. "Bounding the Electrostatic Free Energies Associated with Linear Continuum Models of Molecular Solvation".
    J. Chem. Phys. 130, 104108 (2009); DOI:10.1063/1.3081148
  14. Alessandro Tasora, Dan Negrut and Mihai Anitescu. "Large-Scale Parallel Multibody Dynamics with Frictional Contact on the Graphical Processing Unit ". Proc. IMechE, Part K: J. Multi-body Dynamics, 2008, 222(K4), 315-326. Electronic version DOI: 10.1243/14644193JMBD154:
  15. B. Gavrea, M. Anitescu, and F.A. Potra. Convergence of a Class of Semi-Implicit Time-Stepping schemes for Nonsmooth Rigid Multibody Dynamics.SIAM J. Optim 19(2), pp. 969-1001 (2008). DOI 10.1137/060675745
  16. D. Negrut, M. Anitescu, A. El-Azab, and P. Zapol, ”Quasicontinuum-like reduction of DFT calculations of nanostructures", J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. Volume 8, Pages 3729-3740, 2008. DOI 10.1166/jnn.2008.013 though stated, seems to be incorrect (thanks Jason Sarich). Alternative link.
  17. Anitescu, M. Hovland, P. Palmiotti, G. Yang, W. S.  "An Overview of Automatic Differentiation Tools and Techniques for Nuclear Reactor Applications", TRANSACTIONS- AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, VOL 96, pages 538-539, 2007.
  18. Anitescu, M. Hovland, P. Palmiotti, G. Yang, W. S.  "Randomized Quasi Monte Carlo Sampling Techniques in Nuclear Reactor Uncertainty Assessment", TRANSACTIONS- AMERICAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY, VOL 96, pages 526-527, 2007.
  19. Mihai Anitescu , William J. Layton. Sensitivities in Large Eddy Simulation and Improved Estimates of Turbulent Flow Functionals.  SIAM Journal of Scientific Computing Volume 29 Issue 4 Pages 1650-1667, 2007. DOI 10.1137/050631161;
  20. G. Aliberti, G. Palmiotti, M. Salvatores, T.K. Kim, T.A. Taiwo, M. Anitescu, I. Kodeli, E. Sartori, J.C. Bosq, J. Tommasi," Nuclear Data Sensitivity, Uncertainty and Target Accuracy Assessment for Future Nuclear Systems". Annals of Nuclear Energy 33(8), pp 700-733, 2006. DOI 10.1016/j.anucene.2006.02.003  
  21. Mihai Anitescu, Paul Tseng, Stephen J. Wright. Elastic-Mode Algorithms for Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints: Global Convergence and Stationarity Properties. Mathematical Programming, 110(2) July, pp 337-371 2007. DOI 10.1007/s10107-006-0005-4 .
  22. F.A. Potra, M. Anitescu, B. Gavrea and J. Trinkle. A linearly implicit trapezoidal method for stiff multibody dynamics  with contact, joints and friction. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. Volume 66(7), pp 1079-1124, 2006. DOI   10.1002/nme.1582
  23. M. Anitescu. Optimization-based simulation of nonsmooth dynamics. Mathematical Programming, series A, Volume 105, pp 113-143, 2006. DOI 10.1007/s10107-005-0590-7
  24. M. Anitescu. On Using the Elastic Mode in Nonlinear Programming Approaches to Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints. SIAM Journal on Optimization, Volume 15(4),  pp. 1203-1236, 2005. DOI 10.1137/S1052623402401221
    • NOTE There is a bit of confusion about citing this item. At the request of a referee I changed the title of the article just before sending it to production, so it tends to be cited under its 2000 technical report name. "On Solving Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints as Nonlinear Programs."
  25. M. Anitescu. Global Convergence of an Elastic Mode Approach for A Class of Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints.  SIAM Journal on Optimization, Volume 16(1), pp 120-145, 2005. DOI  10.1137/040606855
  26. M. Anitescu, F.A. Pahlevani and W.J. Layton. Implicit for local effects and explicit for nonlocal effects is unconditionally stable Electronic Transactions of Numerical Analysis, Volume 18, pp. 174-187, 2004. NO DOI, Electronic version only http://etna.math.kent.edu/vol.18.2004/pp174-187.dir/pp174-187.htm
  27. M. Anitescu and G.D. Hart. A constraint-stabilized time-stepping approach   for rigid multibody dynamics with joints, contact and friction.   International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 60(14), 2335-2371, 2004. DOI 10.1002/nme.1047
  28. M. Anitescu and G.D. Hart. A Fixed-Point Iteration Approach for Multibody Dynamics with Contact and Small Friction. Mathematical Programming, 101(1), 3--32. 2004.DOI 10.1007/s10107-004-0535-6
  29. M. Anitescu and G. D. Hart. Solving nonconvex problems of multibody dynamics with contact and small friction by sequential convex relaxation. Mechanics Based Design of Machines and Structures 31(3), 335-356, 2003. DOI: 10.1081/SME-120022854
  30. Mihai Anitescu and F. A. Potra. A Time-Stepping Method for Stiff Multi-Rigid-Body Dynamics with Contact and Friction. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 55 (2002), 753--784. DOI: 10.1002/nme.512 
  31. A Superlinearly Convergent Sequential Quadratically Constrained Quadratic Programming Algorithm for Degenerate Nonlinear Programming, SIAM Journal of Optimization  12 (2002), 949-978. DOI 10.1137/S1052623499365309
  32. Mihai Anitescu. On the rate of convergence of Sequential Quadratic Programming with nondifferentiable exact penalty function in the presence of constraint degeneracy.  Mathematical Programming,  92 (2002), 359-386 DOI 10.1007/s101070100252
  33. Mihai Anitescu. Rate-Distortion Optimal Subband Coding Without Perfect-Reconstruction Constraints . with M.K. Mihcak, P. Moulin and K. Ramchandran. IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing 49 (3) : 542-557, 2001. DOI: 10.1109/78.905876
  34. Mihai Anitescu. Degenerate Nonlinear Programming with a Quadratic Growth Condition. SIAM Journal on Optimization 10 (4) : 1116-1135, 2000.  DOI: 10.1137/S1052623499359178
  35. Mihai Anitescu, D. Stewart and F.A. Potra. Time-Stepping for Three-Dimensional Rigid-Body Dynamics). Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering ,177, 183--197, 1999.DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7825(98)00380-6 
  36. Pierre Moulin, Mihai Anitescu and Kannan Ramchandran. Theory of Rate--Distortion--Optimal, Constrained Filter Banks --- Application to IIR and FIR Biorthogonal Designs. IEEE Transactions in Signal Processing, 48 (4) : 1120-1132, 2000. DOI: 10.1109/78.827545
  37. Mihai Anitescu, Goran Lesaja and F.A. Potra. An infeasible-interior-point predictor-corrector algorithm for the $P_*$-Geometric LCP, Applied Mathematics and Optimization , 36 (2), pp. 203-228, 1997.DOI: 10.1007/s002459900060
  38. Pierre Moulin, K.O. Kortanek, Mihai Anitescu, and F.A. Potra. The Role of Linear Semi-Infinite Programming in Signal-Adapted QMF Bank Design, IEEE Journal of Signal Processing , 45 (9), pp. 2160-2174, 1997. DOI 10.1109/78.622941
  39. Mihai Anitescu and F.A. Potra. Formulating dynamic multi-rigid-body contact problems with friction as solvable Linear Complementarity Problems, Nonlinear Dynamics , 14 , 231--247, 1997. DOI: 10.1023/A:1008292328909
  40. Mihai Anitescu, Goran Lesaja and F.A. Potra. Equivalence between different formulations of the linear complementarity problems, Optimization Methods and Software (OMS), 7 (3-4), pp. 265-290, 1997. DOI: 10.1080/10556789708805657
  41. Mihai Anitescu, J.F. Cremer, and F.A. Potra, Formulating 3D Contact Dynamics Problem, Mechanics of Structures and Machines},24(4), November 1996. DOI: 10.1080/08905459608905271
  42. Mihai Anitescu, D.I. Coroian, M.Z. Nashed, and F.A. Potra. Outer Inverses and Multi-Body System Simulation, Numerical Functional Analysis and Optimization, 17 (7&8), pp 661-678, 1996.DOI: 10.1080/01630569608816717

 

Book Chapters.

  1. Victor M. Zavala, Mihai Anitescu and Theodore Krause. "On the Optimal On-Line Management of Photovoltaic-Hydrogen Hybrid Energy System". Preprint ANL/MCS P1569-0109Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering - PSE2009, Rita Maria de Brito Alves, Claudio Augusto Oller do Nascimento, Evaristo Chalbaud Biscaia Jr. (Editosr. )Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, Volume 27, Pages1953-1958, 2009 Elsevier, Amsterdam.. PDF Version.
  2. A. Tasora, M. Anitescu. " A Fast NCP Solver for Large Rigid-Body Problems with Contacts, Friction, and Joints. " in Proceedings of ECCOMAS Thematic Conference in Multibody Dynamics, Carlo Botasso Editor, Springer , Berlin, 2008, pp 45-55. Preprint ANL/MCS-P1476-0108.Pdf version. Revised Feb 2008. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8829-2_3
  3. (with Florian Potra) "On integrating stiff rigid multibody dynamics with contact and friction",  in  Contact Mechanics. Proceedings of the 3rd Contact Mechanics International Symposium,  Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2002, 83--90.
  4. Properties of Complementarity Formulations for Contact Problems with Friction ( with J.F.Cremer and F.A.Potra ), in Complementarity and Variational Problems: State of the Art, Michael C. Ferris and Jong-Shi Pang, Editors, SIAM Publications, Philadelphia, 1997, pp. 12-21.

Refereed Proceedings Papers

  1. Heyn, T., H. Mazhar, A. Tasora, M. Anitescu, and D. Negrut,"A parallel algorithm for solving complex multibody problems with stream
    processors". 2009 ASME IDETC conference, paepr DETC2009-86478.
  2. Heyn, T., H. Mazhar, A. Tasora, M. Anitescu, and D. Negrut,"A parallel algorithm for solving complex multibody problems with stream
    processors" t, in ECCOMAS Multibody Dynamics Conference, J. Franczek, Editor. 2009: Warsaw,
    Poland.
  3. Alessandro Tasora, Dan Negrut, Mihai Anitescu. LARGE-SCALE PARALLEL MULTIBODY DYNAMICS WITH FRICTIONAL CONTACT ON THE GPU. To appear in Proceedings of the ASME 2008 Dynamics and Control Conference, DSCC 2008. Preprint ANL/MCS -P1487-0308
  4. Alessandro Tasora, Dan Negrut, Mihai Anitescu. "A GPU-BASED IMPLEMENTATION OF A CONE CONVEX COMPLEMENTARITY APPROACH FOR SIMULATING RIGID BODY DYNAMICS WITH FRICTIONAL CONTACT". To appear in proceedings of the 2008 ASME Congress, paper IMECE-66766. Preprint ANL/MCS-P1545-0908
  5. Kyle Schmitt, Justin Madsen, Mihai Anitescu, Dan Negrut. " A GAUSSIAN PROCESS BASED APPROACH FOR HANDLING UNCERTAINTY IN VEHICLE DYNAMICS SIMULATION". Preprint ANL/MCS-P1505-0608. Pdf version. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2008 ASME Congress, paper number IMECE-66664.
  6. M. Anitescu, G. Palmiotti, Won-Sik Yang and Monika Neda. " STOCHASTIC FINITE-ELEMENT APPROXIMATION OF THE PARAMETRIC DEPENDENCE OF EIGENVALUE PROBLEM SOLUTION" . Proceedings of the Mathematics, Computation and Supercomputing in Nuclear Applications, Monterey, 2007.Dan Negrut, Mihai Anitescu, Anter El-Azab, Steve Benson, Peter Zapol, Emil Constantinescu, and Toby Heyn, A  Real-Space Parallel Optimization Model Reduction Approach for Electronic Structure Computation in Large Nanostructures Using Orbital-Free Density Functional Theory, In Proceedings of  the 2006 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, paper no. IMECE 2006-15740, 2006. NO DOI. Abstract and availability on ASME web site.
  7. D. Negrut, M. Anitescu, T. Munson, and P. Zapol, Simulating nanoscale processes in solids using DFT and the quasicontinuum method, in Proceedings of the 2005 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, paper no. IMECE 2005-81755, 2005.NO DOI, Abstract and availability on ASME web sit .
  8. M. Anitescu.  Mathematical Programs with Equilibrium Constraints ans Applications to Control. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest.
  9. J. Peng, M. Anitescu and Srinivas Akella.Mathematical Programs with Complementarity Constraints for Multiple Robot Coordination with Contact and Friction. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference in Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004), New Orleans, LA, May 2004, 5224-5232DOI  10.1109/ROBOT.2004.1302547
  10. M. Anitescu, A. Miller and G. Hart. Constraint stabilization for time-stepping approaches for rigid multibody dynamics with joints, contact and friction. Proceedings of ASME 2003 Design Engineering Technical Conferences, Chicago, Illinois, September 2003, Paper DETC2003/VIB-48432.NO DOI. Abstract
  11. M. Anitescu. A Fixed Time Stepping Approach for Multibody Dynamics With Contact and Friction. Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Symposium in Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003, 3725–3731DOI:  10.1109/IROS.2003.1249734
  12. G.D. Hart and Mihai Anitescu. A Hard-Constraint Time-Stepping Approach for Rigid Multibody Dynamics with Joints, Contact, and Friction. Proceedings of the ACM 2003 Tapia Conference for Diversity in Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, 2003, 34–40. DOI: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/948542.94855
  13. Asymptotic performance of subband coders using constrained, signal-adapted FIR filter banks (with Pierre Moulin and Kannan Ramchandran), to appear in Proceedings of the Conference on Information Sciences and Systems , Princeton, March 1998.
  14. Some Fundamental Properties of MMSE filter Banks (with K. Mihcak, P. Moulin and K. Ramchandran).  Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE-SP International Symposia on Time-Frequency and Time-Scale analysis . 6-9 Oct. 1998 Page(s):525 - 528 . DOI: 10.1109/TFSA.1998.721477
  15. Design of Signal-Adapted FIR Paraunitary Filter Banks (with P. Moulin , K.O.Kortanek , F.A.Potra ), Proceedings of International IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Atlanta, 1996 Volume 3, pp 1519-1522. DOI:  10.1109/ICASSP.1996.544088
  16. Linear Complementarity Problems in Frictionless Contact Dynamics (with J.F.Cremer ), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Vol.1, pp 87-94, May 1995.
  17. Generalization of the Kharitonov Theorem, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Control Systems and Computer Science, Bucharest, Vol.1, pp 89-95, May 1993. 

 

Technical Reports and Technical Memos

  1. Victor Zavala, Emil Constantinescu, Theodore Krause and Mihai Anitescu. Exploiting Weather Forecast in integrated energy systems.Technical MemoANL/MCS-TM-3 2009. .PDF Version.
  2. E.M. Constantinesc1, V.M. Zavala, M. Rocklin, S. Lee, and M. Anitescu. Unit Commitment with Wind Power Generation: Integrating Wind Forecast Uncertainty and Stochastic Programming. Memo ANL/MCS-TM309.2009. PDF version.
  3. G. Palmiotti, J. Cahalan, P. Pfeiffer, T. Sofu, T. Taiwo, T. Wei, A. Yacout, W. Yang, A. Siegel, Z. Insepov, M. Anitescu,P. Hovland, C. Pereira, M. Regalbuto, J. Copple, M. Williamson. Requirements for Advanced Simulation of Nuclear Reactor and Chemical Separation Plants". Technical Report ANL-AFCI-168, December 2006. PDF version.
  4. Dan Negrut, Mihai Anitescu, Todd Munson, Peter Zapol, Density Functional Theory-Based Nanostructure Investigation: Theoretical Considerations. Preprint number: ANL/MCS-P1252-0505, Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, May 2005.  Pdf version
  5. A sparse Superlinearly Convergent SQP with Applications to Two-Dimensional Shape Optimization (with R. Serban). Technical Report ANL/MCS-P706-0198. Pdf version. 
  6. Nonlinear Programs with Unbounded Lagrange Multiplier Sets, Technical Report ANL/MCS-P793-0200. Pdf version.

 
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