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Automated shape differentiation in the Unified Form Language

Numerical Analysis 2020-08-26 v2

Abstract

We discuss automating the calculation of weak shape derivatives in the Unified Form Language (Aln{\ae}s et al., ACM Trans. Math. Softw., 2014) by introducing an appropriate additional step in the pullback from physical to reference space that computes G\^ateaux derivatives with respect to the coordinate field. We illustrate the ease of use with several examples.

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@article{arxiv.1808.08083,
  title  = {Automated shape differentiation in the Unified Form Language},
  author = {David A. Ham and Lawrence Mitchell and Alberto Paganini and Florian Wechsung},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.08083},
  year   = {2020}
}
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