ARGOS — Turning your data into Simulations

Mursal Furqan Kumbhar
SISSA mathLab
Published in
5 min readNov 19, 2023

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ARGOS’ Logo

ARGOS or Advanced Reduced Order Modeling is an innovative online computer web platform that redefines scientific engagement with complicated parametric systems. ARGOS serves as a dynamic platform that expedites scientific research and uses created simulations to transform difficult data into insightful knowledge. It also facilitates a more effective study understanding of a variety of subjects, including heat, fluid motion, and others.

Simulation of pressure and wall shear stress from the supraceliac aorta to the femoral and profunda femoris artery bifurcation

Unveiling ARGOS: A Comprehensive Overview

ARGOS is a state-of-the-art platform that empowers its users with better scientific exploration. With a variety of applications spanning diverse scientific domains, ARGOS redefines the landscape of complex simulations. ARGOS provides efficient yet accurate simulations, keeping the error at the lowest number possible.

ARGOS contains an expanding variety of applications. From the beautiful visualization of Linear Elasticity and Elliptic Optimal Control to the complex simulations of Navier-Stokes equations and Dynamic Mode Decomposition unfolds the complicated structures of composite systems, bridging the gap between computation and reality with utmost concreteness.

ARGOS can be used to visualize different simulations that can help in all walks of life.

But ARGOS stability and completeness do not only lie in its applications but also in harnessing cloud-based infrastructure. ARGOS masterfully integrates accessibility and scalability, simplifying complex workflows. Acting more than just an online tool to visualize and generate simulations, ARGOS accelerates scientific progress by enabling the exchange of ideas and insights.

With its fusion of advanced mathematical and scientific algorithms, user-friendly interface, and collaborative spirit, ARGOS ushers in a new era of exploration. As it enables researchers and scientists to help them transform their scientific journey, ARGOS stands ready to unlock the mysteries of complex systems, revealing simulations, and graphs, that could reshape the boundaries of scientific understanding.

ARGOS homes a simple yet powerful platform to simulate different problems and see the results in real-time.

Salient Features of ARGOS

  • Reduced Order Modeling: ARGOS transforms complex simulations into easily understood and well structured graphs using Reduced Order Modeling (ROM), optimizing computational efficiency simultaneously. It leverages Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) to create a streamlined ROM. This ROM rapidly approximates solutions for new parameters, and allows users, i.e., scientists, engineers and researchers resulting in substantial speed improvements with minimal error — a breakthrough in computational efficiency.
  • Machine Learning: Our online reduced order modelling platform, ARGOS empowers users to unlock data insights through advanced analytics. It provides tools and techniques to analyze complex datasets, revealing hidden patterns and correlations in the form of simulations that lead to deeper understanding and better decision-making.
  • Cloud Computing & GUI: ARGOS’s cloud infrastructure is one of its most significant factors, that makes it stand out from other similar platforms. The cloud-based approach used by ARGOS offers unmatched flexibility, enabling users to access and process data from anywhere, at any time. Meanwhile, the platform’s interactive interface serves as a hub for its applications and tutorials, simplifying complex workflows. By making data manipulation seamless and efficient, ARGOS ensures users can focus on deriving insights rather than grappling with complexities.
  • Real-Time Simulations: Using the complete potential of mathematical algorithms and advanced technologies, infused with advanced algorithms, ARGOS allows researchers and engineers to experiment and play with the simulations of their data in real-time.
  • Advanced Algorithms: ARGOS utilizes advanced technologies to employ cutting-edge algorithms that drive efficient and accurate simulations. Through the integration of advanced learning techniques, ARGOS optimizes processes, generating precise mathematical models with minimal computational resources. Thanks to these advanced algorithms, ARGOS can turn your complex data into real-time simulations.
  • Mathematical Modeling: ARGOS operates on the basis of mathematical modeling, a process that transforms real-world complexities into computational frameworks. Advanced algorithms used in ARGOS capture the essence of various scenarios, facilitating accurate analysis and insightful decision-making simulations. This seamless translation of data into unique simulations and graphs, bridges the gap between theory and practice, empowering users to utilize the power of computation for innovation and discovery.

Tutorials and Resources

ARGOS encompasses a wide range of applications, each designed to promote scientific exploration.

An overview of the applications & tutorials that ARGOS hosts.

Some of the applications hosted over ARGOS are:

  1. Clustering: Facilitates custom dataset visualization and simplified clustering analysis.
  2. Elastic Block: Explores linear elasticity in a two-dimensional domain using POD-Galerkin reduced order modeling techniques, with a focus on reduced basis approaches.
  3. Elliptic Optimal Control: This application uses distributed elliptic optimal control for the Laplace equation, employing geometrical parametrization within a two-dimensional domain.
  4. Gaussian: It examines steady heat conduction in a two-dimensional square domain, utilizing ROM techniques including a reduced basis method by employing the Empirical Interpolation Method.
  5. Graetz Problem: This application addresses forced heat convection within a two-part channel divided into low and high-temperature sections using a geometrical parametrization and the successive constraints method.
  6. Hole: It implements a thermal conduction problem in a two-dimensional domain using POD-Galerkin reduced order modeling techniques with a reduced basis approach.
  7. Navier Stokes: This application explores the Navier-Stokes equations in a two-dimensional backward-facing step domain using POD-Galerkin reduced order modeling techniques, emphasizing reduced basis approaches.
  8. POD with Interpolation for Navier-Stokes: It harnesses Reduced Order Modeling to compute pressure and velocity fields in a two-dimensional domain for the complex Navier-Stokes equations.
  9. PyDMD — Dynamic Mode Decomposition: This application details the significance of Dynamic Mode Decomposition for nonlinear system analysis using high-fidelity measurements and simulates its connections to Koopman-operator analysis. It incorporates examples from computational fluid dynamics.
  10. Stokes: It engages with geometrical parametrization in steady Stokes equations within a two-dimensional domain using POD-Galerkin ROM technique.
  11. Stokes Optimal Control: This application explores distributed optimal control for Couette flow, utilizing the Stokes equations within a two-dimensional domain. It employs POD-Galerkin ROM.
  12. Thermal Block: It investigates parametric steady heat conduction problems in a two-dimensional domain using ROM techniques, particularly reduced basis approaches.
Clustering Application at work. It allows to visualize custom dataset and performs some simplified clustering analysis.

These applications illuminate every aspect, making the most of each ARGOS’s capabilities. ARGOS empowers users to navigate complex models confidently and extract meaningful insights using state-of-the-art simulation platform in real-time. The applications deployed on ARGOS are created using RBniCS, PyDMD, EZyRB, Smithers and other advanced tools.

Embark on Your ARGOS Journey

Experience this scientific breakthrough using the portal of ARGOS, accessible via the link https://argos.sissa.it/, Where, complex computations become not only attainable but interactive, offering a platform where innovative applications await your exploration.

Introduction to ARGOS

Take the lead in shaping the future of scientific computing by immersing yourself in ARGOS’s capabilities!

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