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It is well known that the full Navier-Stokes-Fourier system does not possess a strong solution in three dimensions which causes problems in applications. However, when modeling the flow of a fluid in a thin long pipe, the influence of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-23 Jan Březina , Ondřej Kreml , Václav Mácha

We consider the classical compressible Euler's Equations in three space dimensions with an arbitrary equation of state, and whose initial data corresponds to a constant state outside a sphere. Under suitable restriction on the size of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-05-07 Demetrios Christodoulou , Shuang Miao

We consider a shape optimization problem written in the optimal control form: the governing operator is the $p$-Laplacian in the Euclidean space $\R^d$, the cost is of an integral type, and the control variable is the domain of the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-28 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Francesco Paolo Maiale , Bozhidar Velichkov

We study a diffuse interface model for incompressible isothermal mixtures of two immiscible fluids coupling the Navier--Stokes system with a convective nonlocal Cahn--Hilliard equation in two dimensions of space. We apply recently proved…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-11-07 Sergio Frigeri , Elisabetta Rocca , Jürgen Sprekels

This paper is concerned with the optimal shape design of the newtonian viscous incompressible fluids driven by the stationary nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations. We use three approaches to derive the structures of shape gradients for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma , Hongwei Zhuang

The present paper considers a homogeneous bubble inside an unbounded polytropic compressible liquid with viscosity. The system is governed by the Navier-Stokes equation with free boundary which is determined by the kinematic and dynamic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Lifeng Zhao , Liangchen Zou

This work deals with the existence of optimal solution and the maximum principle for optimal control problem governed by Navier-Stokes equations with state constraint in 3-D. Strong results in 2-D also are given.

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-19 Hanbing Liu

We consider the shape optimization of an object in Navier--Stokes flow by employing a combined phase field and porous medium approach, along with additional perimeter regularization. By considering integral control and state constraints, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

This paper studies a shape optimization problem which reduces to a nonlocal free boundary problem involving perimeter. It is motivated by a study of liquid crystal droplets with a tangential anchoring boundary condition and a volume…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-02-02 Zhiyuan Geng , Fanghua Lin

We investigate a fluid-structure interaction system in which the dynamics of the fluid is described by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, while the elastic structure is modeled by a damped plate equation. The fluid evolves in a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Kuntal Bhandari , Imene Aicha Djebour , Šárka Nečasová

This communication is devoted to the presentation of our recent results regarding the asymptotic analysis of a viscous flow in a tube with elastic walls. This study can be applied, for example, to the blood flow in an artery. With this aim,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-03-14 G. Castiñeira , J. M. Rodríguez

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Livia Betz

In this paper we introduce a simple variational model describing the ground state of a superconducting charge qubit. The model gives rise to a shape optimization problem that aims at maximizing the number of qubit states at a given gating…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Dario Mazzoleni , Cyrill B. Muratov , Berardo Ruffini

A prevalent feature of three-dimensional turbulence is the presence of anomalous dissipation, or that the mean rate of energy dissipation is bounded below by a positive number in the inviscid limit. This is thought to be due to the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-24 Ethan Dudley , Konstantina Trivisa

A shape optimization problem arising from the optimal reinforcement of a membrane by means of one-dimensional stiffeners or from the fastest cooling of a two-dimensional object by means of ``conducting wires'' is considered. The criterion…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Giuseppe Buttazzo , Francesco Paolo Maiale

In this work, we address some optimal control problems related to the evolution of two isothermal, incompressible, immisible fluids in a two dimensional bounded domain. A distributed optimal control problem is formulated as the minimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-02-19 Tania Biswas , Sheetal Dharmatti , Manil T Mohan

We examine the so-called micropolar equations in three dimensional cylindrical domains under Navier boundary conditions. These equations form a generalization of the ordinary incompressible Navier-Stokes model, taking the structure of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-02-20 B. Nowakowski

In this paper, we consider the 3D Navier-Stokes-Voigt (NSV) equations with nonlinear damping $|u|^{r-1}u, r\in[1,\infty)$ in bounded and space-periodic domains. We formulate an optimal control problem of minimizing the curl of the velocity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Sakthivel Kumarasamy

We study a coupled fluid-structure system involving boundary conditions on the pressure. The fluid is described by the incompressible Navier--Stokes equations in a 2D rectangular type domain where the upper part of the domain is described…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Jean-Jérôme Casanova

Spaces where each element describes a shape, so-called shape spaces, are of particular interest in shape optimization and its applications. Theory and algorithms in shape optimization are often based on techniques from differential…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Lidiya Pryymak , Tim Suchan , Kathrin Welker