Publications

Peer-reviewed work

These span a few different method families, but they're all chasing the same thing: making PDE-based workflows cheaper and scalable.

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Reduced basis solvers for unfitted methods on parameterised domains

N. Mueller, S. Badia, Y. Zhao. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2026.

Geometry that changes shape is one of the more annoying things to handle in reduced-order modelling, since it usually means remeshing every time. This combines unfitted methods with reduced basis ideas to avoid that.

Parameterised domains Unfitted FEM Reduced basis

2026 · Preprint

Opal.jl: a comprehensive, composable framework for data assimilation in Julia

N. Mueller. Submitted.

Sequential Bayesian filters and variational estimators behind one Julia package, with localisation, inflation, bias correction, and integration with ROM pipelines for efficiency. Tested on Lorenz-63, a Van der Pol oscillator with biased observations, Reynolds number discovery in a turbulent Navier-Stokes flow, and a heat equation running on a reduced-order surrogate instead of the full model.

Data assimilation Preprint

2025

GridapROMs.jl: Efficient reduced order modelling in the Julia programming language

N. Mueller, S. Badia. Computer Physics Communications, 109985.

The software paper for GridapROMs.jl, the reduced-order modelling package I built and use daily. It spells out the interface design and performance choices behind it.

Scientific software DOI

2025

A tensor-train reduced basis solver for parameterised partial differential equations on Cartesian grids

N. Mueller, Y. Zhao, S. Badia, T. Cui. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 472, 116790.

Uses tensor-train structure to cut the cost of basis construction and operator approximation, while maintaining the typical robustness of a reduced-order model.

Tensor methods DOI

2024

Model order reduction with novel discrete empirical interpolation methods in space-time

N. Mueller, S. Badia. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 444, 115767.

Space-time interpolation for transient reduced-order models, with a focus on making residual and Jacobian evaluations more efficient.

Space-time ROM DOI

2024

Space-time reduced basis methods for parametrised unsteady Stokes equations

R. Tenderini, N. Mueller, S. Deparis. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 46(1).

Compares space-time reduction strategies for unsteady Stokes flow on a haemodynamics-motivated benchmark. The established ST-LSPG approach turned out to have an expensive offline phase and lose accuracy over time; the Galerkin-projection method proposed here stayed cheap and accurate throughout.

Unsteady flow DOI