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The structure theorem of Hadamard-Zol\'esio states that the derivative of a shape functional is a distribution on the boundary of the domain depending only on the normal perturbations of a smooth enough boundary. Actually the domain…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-01 Antoine Laurain , Kevin Sturm

In this paper we investigate and compare different gradient algorithms designed for the domain expression of the shape derivative. Our main focus is to examine the usefulness of kernel reproducing Hilbert spaces for PDE constrained shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-20 Martin Eigel , Kevin Sturm

We study three types of fourth-order Steklov eigenvalue problems. For the first two of them, we derive the asymptotic expansion of their spectra on Euclidean annular domains $\mathbb{B}^n_1\setminus \overline{\mathbb{B}^n_\epsilon}$ as…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Changwei Xiong , Jinglong Yang , Jinchao Yu

It is known that the torsional rigidity for a punctured ball, with the puncture having the shape of a ball, is minimum when the balls are concentric and the first eigenvalue for the Dirichlet Laplacian for such domains is also a maximum in…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2012-06-20 Anisa Chorwadwala , Rajesh Mahadevan

We present first a brief review of the existing literature on shape optimization, stressing the recent use of Hamiltonian systems in topology optimization. In the second section, we collect some preliminaries on the implicit parametrization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-23 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

Most inverse problems from physical sciences are formulated as PDE-constrained optimization problems. This involves identifying unknown parameters in equations by optimizing the model to generate PDE solutions that closely match measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Qin Li , Li Wang , Yunan Yang

In this paper, we propose an unfitted finite element method to solve PDE-constrained shape optimization problems via shape gradient flow. The shape gradient flow system consists of the state equation, the adjoint equation, the velocity…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Wei Gong , Chuwen Ma , Ziyi Zhang

This paper presents an overview of recent developments in the analysis of shapes such as curves and surfaces through Riemannian metrics. We show that several constructions of metrics on spaces of submanifolds can be unified through the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-09-19 Martin Bauer , Nicolas Charon , Laurent Younes

This paper presents the first optimal-rate $p$-th order methods with $p\geq 1$ for finding first and second-order stationary points of non-convex smooth objective functions over Riemannian manifolds. In contrast to the geodesically convex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-23 David Huckleberry Gutman , George Lobo

We associate a sequence of variational eigenvalues to any Radon measure on a compact Riemannian manifold. For particular choices of measures, we recover the Laplace, Steklov and other classical eigenvalue problems. In the first part of the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-08 Alexandre Girouard , Mikhail Karpukhin , Jean Lagacé

This article combines shape optimization and homogenization techniques by looking for the optimal design of the microstructure in composite materials and of scaffolds. The development of materials with specific properties is of huge…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Marc Dambrine , Helmut Harbrecht

Shape optimization based on surface gradients and the Hadarmard-form is considered for a compressible viscous fluid. Special attention is given to the difference between the 'function composition' approach involving local shape derivatives…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2013-12-23 Matthias Sonntag , Stephan Schmidt , Nicolas R. Gauger

We introduce a novel method for the implementation of shape optimziation in fluid dynamics applications, where we propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields with the help of the $p-$ Laplacian for $p > 2$. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Peter Marvin Müller , Niklas Kühl , Martin Siebenborn , Klaus Deckelnick , Michael Hinze , Thomas Rung

For shape optimization problems, governed by elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary condition and random coefficients, we utilize a penalization technique to get the approximate problem. We consider that uncertainties exists in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-26 Xiaowei Pang

Matrix-valued optimization tasks, including those involving symmetric positive definite (SPD) matrices, arise in a wide range of applications in machine learning, data science and statistics. Classically, such problems are solved via…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Andrew Cheng , Melanie Weber

We consider a variant of the classic Steklov eigenvalue problem, which arises in the study of the best trace constant for functions in Sobolev space. We prove that the elementary symmetric functions of the eigenvalues depend…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-10-15 Pier Domenico Lamberti

This article proposes a new discrete framework for approximating solutions to shape optimization problems under convexity constraints. The numerical method, based on the support function or the gauge function, is guaranteed to generate…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Beniamin Bogosel

This paper is concerned with the derivation of necessary conditions for the optimal shape of a design problem governed by a non-smooth PDE. The main particularity thereof is the lack of differentiability of the nonlinearity in the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Livia Betz

Shape constraints, such as non-negativity, monotonicity, convexity or supermodularity, play a key role in various applications of machine learning and statistics. However, incorporating this side information into predictive models in a hard…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-22 Pierre-Cyril Aubin-Frankowski , Zoltan Szabo

Shape-constrained optimization arises in a wide range of problems including distributionally robust optimization (DRO) that has surging popularity in recent years. In the DRO literature, these problems are usually solved via reduction into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Henry Lam , Zhenyuan Liu , Dashi I. Singham