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The present paper deals with the interior solid-fluid interaction problem in harmonic regime with randomly perturbed boundaries. Analysis of the shape derivative and shape Hessian of vector- and tensor-valued functions is provided. Moments…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-30 Debopriya Mukherjee , Thanh Tran

In this paper, we consider numerical approximations of a binary fluid-surfactant phase-field model coupled with the fluid flow, in which the system is highly nonlinear that couples the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations and two…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Xiaofeng Yang

This article presents a new finite element method for convection-diffusion equations by enhancing the continuous finite element space with a flux space for flux approximations that preserve the important mass conservation locally on each…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Yujie Liu , Junping Wang , Qingsong Zou

In this article, we develop a least--squares/fictitious domain method for direct simulation of fluid particle motion with Navier slip boundary condition at the fluid--particle interface. Let $\Omega$ and $B$ be two bounded domains of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Rong Zhang , Qiaolin He

Biomembranes and vesicles consisting of multiple phases can attain a multitude of shapes, undergoing complex shape transitions. We study a Cahn--Hilliard model on an evolving hypersurface coupled to Navier--Stokes equations on the surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 John W. Barrett , Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg

We consider an optimal control problem for a two-dimensional Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard system arising in the modeling of fluid-membrane interaction. The fluid dynamics is governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, which are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Andrea Signori , Hao Wu

We investigate a shape optimization problem for a heat-conducting fluid governed by a Boussinesq system. The main goal is to determine an optimal domain shape that yields a temperature distribution as uniform as possible. Initially, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Andrea Ceretani , Weiwei Hu , Lin Mu , Carlos Rautenberg

We investigate the problem of finding the optimal shape and topology of a system of acoustic lenses in a dissipative medium. The sound propagation is governed by a general semilinear strongly damped wave equation. We introduce a phase-field…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-29 Harald Garcke , Sourav Mitra , Vanja Nikolić

T. Borrvall and J. Petersson [Topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 41 (1) (2003) 77--107] developed the first model for topology optimization of fluids in Stokes flow. They…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Ioannis P. A. Papadopoulos , Endre Süli

We develop mathematical models for shape design and topology optimization in structural contact problems involving friction between elastic and rigid bodies. The governing mechanical constraint is a nonlinear, non-smooth, and non-convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Yixin Tan , Fang Feng , Shengfeng Zhu

Topology optimization of natural convection problems is computationally expensive, due to the large number of degrees of freedom (DOFs) in the model and its two-way coupled nature. Herein, a method is presented to reduce the computational…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Janus Asmussen , Joe Alexandersen , Ole Sigmund , Casper Schousboe Andreasen

In topology optimization of fluid-dependent problems, there is a need to interpolate within the design domain between fluid and solid in a continuous fashion. In density-based methods, the concept of inverse permeability in the form of a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-01 Mohamed Abdelhamid , Aleksander Czekanski

In this article we consider shape optimization problems as optimal control problems via the method of mappings. Instead of optimizing over a set of admissible shapes a reference domain is introduced and it is optimized over a set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Johannes Haubner , Martin Siebenborn , Michael Ulbrich

We consider the incompressible flow of two immiscible fluids in the presence of a solid phase that undergoes changes in time due to precipitation and dissolution effects. Based on a seminal sharp interface model a phase field approach is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-12-20 Christian Rohde , Lars von Wolff

A phase-field model that takes into account the bending energy of fluid vesicles is presented. The Canham-Helfrich model is derived in the sharp-interface limit. A dynamic equation for the phase-field has been solved numerically to find…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Campelo , A. Hernandez-Machado

In this work, we study shape optimization problems in the Stokes flows. By phase-field approaches, the resulted total objective function consists of the dissipation energy of the fluids and the Ginzburg--Landau energy functional as a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Futuan Li , Jiang Yang

An efficient topology optimization method applicable to both continuum and rarefied gas flows is proposed in the framework of gas-kinetic theory. The areas of gas and solid are marked by the material density, based on which a fictitious…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-15 Ruifeng Yuan , Lei Wu

Shape optimization with constraints given by partial differential equations (PDE) is a highly developed field of optimization theory. The elegant adjoint formalism allows to compute shape gradients at the computational cost of a further PDE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Matthias Bolten , Onur Tanil Doganay , Hanno Gottschalk , Kathrin Klamroth

In this work, we present a parametric finite element approximation of two-phase Navier-Stokes flow with viscoelasticity. The free boundary problem is given by the viscoelastic Navier-Stokes equations in the two fluid phases, connected by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Harald Garcke , Robert Nürnberg , Dennis Trautwein

We propose a numerical approach for solving conjugate heat transfer problems using the finite volume method. This approach combines a semi-implicit scheme for fluid flow, governed by the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, with an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-18 Liang Fang , Xiandong Liu , Lei Zhang