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Shape optimization models with one or more shapes are considered in this chapter. Of particular interest for applications are problems in which where a so-called shape functional is constrained by a partial differential equation (PDE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-19 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

This article deals with a particular class of shape and topology optimization problems: the optimized design is a region $G$ of the boundary $\partial \Omega$ of a given domain $\Omega$, which supports a particular type of boundary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Eric Bonnetier , Carlos Brito-Pacheco , Charles Dapogny , Rafael Estevez

The paper deals with an eigenvalue problems possessing infinitely many positive and negative eigenvalues. Inequalities for the smallest positive and the largest negative eigenvalues, which have the same properties as the fundamental…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-12-16 Catherine Bandle , Alfred Wagner

Shape optimization problems for interior eigenvalues is a very challenging task since already the computation of interior eigenvalues for a given shape is far from trivial. For example, a concrete maximizer with respect to shapes of fixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-02 Andreas Kleefeld

It is revealed that ensembles consisting of multipartite quantum states can exhibit different kinds of nonlocalities. An operational measure is introduced to quantify nonlocalities in ensembles consisting of bipartite quantum states.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ming-Yong Ye , Yan-Kui Bai , Xiu-Min Lin , Z. D. Wang

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 consider an initial value problem for a nonlocal differential equation with a bistable nonlinearity in several space dimensions. The equation is an ordinary differential equation with respect to the time variable t, while the nonlocal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-06-02 Danielle Hilhorst , Hiroshi Matano , Thanh Nam Nguyen , Hendrik Weber

We discuss first order optimality conditions for geometric optimization problems with Neumann boundary conditions and boundary observation. The methods we develop here are applicable to large classes of state systems or cost functionals.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-07 Dan Tiba

Local boundedness and Harnack inequalities are studied for solutions to parabolic and elliptic integro-differential equations whose governing nonlocal operators are associated with nonsymmetric forms. We present two independent proofs, one…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-11-06 Moritz Kassmann , Marvin Weidner

We study a class of nonlinear eigenvalue problems which involves a convolution operator as well as a superlinear nonlinearity. Our variational existence proof is based on constrained optimization and provides a one-parameter family of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-03-16 Michael Herrmann , Karsten Matthies

Many problems in engineering can be understood as controlling the bifurcation structure of a given device. For example, one may wish to delay the onset of instability, or bring forward a bifurcation to enable rapid switching between states.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Nicolas Boullé , Patrick E. Farrell , Alberto Paganini

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

We extend the nonlocal operator method to higher order scheme by using a higher order Taylor series expansion of the unknown field. Such a higher order scheme improves the original nonlocal operator method proposed by the authors in [A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-09 Huilong Ren , Xiaoying Zhuang , Timon Rabczuk

Nonlocal operators of fractional type are a popular modeling choice for applications that do not adhere to classical diffusive behavior; however, one major challenge in nonlocal simulations is the selection of model parameters. In this work…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Olena Burkovska , Christian Glusa , Marta D'Elia

Within the framework of Hilbert spaces, we solve nonlocal problems in bounded domains with prescribed conditions on the complement of the domain. Our main focus is on the inhomogeneous Neumann problem in a rather general setting. We also…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-12-11 Guy Foghem , Moritz Kassmann

In this work, we present a novel approach for solving stochastic shape optimization problems. Our method is the extension of the classical stochastic gradient method to infinite-dimensional shape manifolds. We prove convergence of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Caroline Geiersbach , Estefania Loayza-Romero , Kathrin Welker

Non-commutative polynomial optimization (NPO) problems seek to minimize the state average of a polynomial of some operator variables, subject to polynomial constraints, over all states and operators, as well as the Hilbert spaces where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Mateus Araújo , Andrew J. P. Garner , Miguel Navascues

The main objective of this paper is to investigate the spectral properties, maximum principles, and shape optimization problems for a broad class of nonlinear ``superposition operators" defined as continuous superpositions of operators of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Yergen Aikyn , Sekhar Ghosh , Vishvesh Kumar , Michael Ruzhansky

A cost functional involving the eigenvalues of an elastic structure, that is described by a multi-phase-field equation, is optimized. This allows us to handle topology changes and multiple materials. We prove continuity and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-12 Harald Garcke , Paul Hüttl , Patrik Knopf

In this article we present the first results on domain decomposition methods for nonlocal operators. We present a nonlocal variational formulation for these operators and establish the well-posedness of associated boundary value problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-03-13 Burak Aksoylu , Michael L. Parks