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We study the thermal insulation of a bounded body $\Omega\subset\mathbb{R}^n$, under a prescribed heat source $f>0$, via a bulk layer of insulating material. We consider a model of heat transfer between the insulated body and the…
We study thermal insulating of a bounded body $\Omega\subset \mathbb{R}^n$. Under a prescribed heat source $f\geq 0$, we consider a model of heat transfer between $\Omega$ and the environment determined by convection; this corresponds,…
We study a nonlinear generalization of a free boundary problem that arises in the context of thermal insulation. We consider two open sets $\Omega\subseteq A$, and we search for an optimal $A$ in order to minimize a non-linear energy…
We consider the homogenization of an optimal control problem in which the control is placed on a part of the boundary and the spatial domain contains a thin layer of "small particles", very close to the controlling boundary, and a Robin…
We show the existence and optimal regularity of the optimal temperature configuration in a problem in heat conduction with minimal temperature constraint, interior heating and exterior insulation. Regularity of the two free boundaries is…
We consider two optimization problems in thermal insulation: in both cases the goal is to find a thin layer around the boundary of the thermal body which gives the best insulation. The total mass of the insulating material is prescribed..…
The problem of disturbed flow in the laminar boundary layer is investigated when a heating element is located on the surface of the body. The flow is supposed to be laminar one. It is shown that the problem may be solved in terms of free…
We study a free boundary optimization problem in heat conduction, ruled by the infinity-Laplace operator, with lower temperature bound and a volume constraint. We obtain existence and regularity results and derive geometric properties for…
We consider shape optimization problems for general integral functionals of the calculus of variations that may contain a boundary term. In particular, this class includes optimization problems governed by elliptic equations with a Robin…
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We analyze the disturbed flow in the supersonic laminar boundary layer when local heated elements are placed on the surface. It is exhibited that these flows are described in terms of free interaction theory for specific sizes of thermal…
In continuing the study of harmonic mapping from 2-dimensional Riemannian simplicial complexes in order to construct minimal surfaces with singularity, we obtain an a-priori regularity result concerning the real analyticity of the free…
We study a class of semilinear free boundary problems in which admissible functions $u$ have a topological constraint, or spanning condition, on their 1-level set. This constraint forces $\{u=1\}$, which is the free boundary, to behave like…
In this paper we study the existence, the optimal regularity of solutions, and the regularity of the free boundary near the so-called \emph{regular points} in a thin obstacle problem that arises as the local extension of the obstacle…
In this paper, we study an insulation problem that seeks the optimal distribution of a fixed amount $m>0$ of insulating material coating an insulated boundary $\Gamma_I\subseteq \partial\Omega$ of a thermally conducting body…
We consider a hyperbolic free boundary problem by means of minimizing time discretized functionals of Crank-Nicolson type. The feature of this functional is that it enjoys energy conservation in the absence of free boundaries, which is an…
In this work we consider topology optimization of systems, which are governed by the external Bernoulli free boundary problem. We utilize the so-called pseudo-solid approach to solve the governing free boundary problems during the…
We study the regularity of the interface for a new free boundary problem introduced by Caffarelli and Kriventsov. We show that for minimizers of the functional \[ F_1(A,u) = \int_A |\nabla u|^2 d\mathcal{L}^n + \int_{\partial A} u^2 +…
We consider the problem of optimal partition of a domain with respect to the sum of the principal eigenvalues and we prove for the first time regularity results for the free interface up to fixed boundary. All our results are quantitative…
In this paper we consider a minimization problem which arises from thermal insulation. A compact connected set $K$, which represents a conductor of constant temperature, say $1$, is thermally insulated by surrounding it with a layer of…