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We consider the problem of optimally insulating a given domain $\Omega$ of ${\mathbb{R}}^d$; this amounts to solve a nonlinear variational problem, where the optimal thickness of the insulator is obtained as the boundary trace of the…

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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…

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The optimal insulation of a heat conducting body by a thin film of variable thickness can be formulated as a nondifferentiable, nonlocal eigenvalue problem. The discretization and iterative solution for the reliable computation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-08-15 Sören Bartels , Giuseppe Buttazzo

Inverse problems associated with designing cylindrical thermal cloaking shells are studied. Using the optimization method these inverse problems are reduced to corresponding control problems in which the diagonal components of diagonal in…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 Gennady Alekseev , Dmitry Tereshko

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…

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The work describes the maximization problem regarding heating of an area on the surface of a thin plate within a given temperature range. The solution of the problem is applied to ion injectors. The given temperature range corresponds to a…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-03-07 A. Ayriyan , E. E. Donets , H. Grigorian , N. Kolkovska , A. Lebedev

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-04 Harbir Antil , Alex Kaltenbach , Keegan L. A. Kirk

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,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Francesco Della Pietra , Carlo Nitsch , Riccardo Scala , Cristina Trombetti

We study a free boundary problem arising from the theory of thermal insulation. The outstanding feature of this set optimization problem is that the boundary of the set being optimized is not a level surface of a harmonic function, but…

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In this paper, we study an insulation problem that seeks to determine the optimal distribution of a given amount $m>0$ of insulating material coating an insulated boundary part $\Gamma_I\subseteq \partial\Omega$ of a thermally conducting…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Harbir Antil , Alex Kaltenbach , Keegan L. A. Kirk

We study a shape optimization problem involving a solid $K\subset\mathbb{R}^n$ that is maintained at constant temperature and is enveloped by a layer of insulating material $\Omega$ which obeys a generalized boundary heat transfer law. We…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Dorin Bucur , Mickaël Nahon , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

This paper studies a two-material optimal design problem for the time-averaged duality pairing between a (possibly time-dependent) heat source and the weak solution of an initial-boundary value problem for the heat equation with a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Kei Matsushima , Tomoyuki Oka

We consider the two-dimensional problem of recovering globally in time the heat distribution on the surface of a layer inside of a heat conducting body from two interior temperature measurements. The problem is ill-posed. The approximation…

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This work presents the derivation of a model for the heating process of the air of a glass dome, where an indoor swimming pool is located in the bottom of the dome. The problem can be reduced from a three dimensional to a two dimensional…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-04 Monika Wolfmayr

Based on the domain variational point of view, we carry on stability analysis on two shape optimization problems from thermal insulation background. The novelty is that, we do not require that the second variation is normal to the boundary.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Yong Huang , Qinfeng Li , Qiuqi Li

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…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Paolo Acampora , Emanuele Cristoforoni , Carlo Nitsch , Cristina Trombetti

In this article we develop a duality principle and concerning computational method for a structural optimization problem in elasticity. We consider the problem of finding the optimal topology for an elastic solid which minimizes its…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-13 Fabio Botelho , Alexandre Molter

A heat exchanger can be modeled as a closed domain containing an incompressible fluid. The moving fluid has a temperature distribution obeying the advection-diffusion equation, with zero temperature boundary conditions at the walls.…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Florence Marcotte , Charles R. Doering , Jean-Luc Thiffeault , William R. Young

This paper addresses the problem of determining the optimum shape for a beer glass that minimizes the heat transfer while the liquid is consumed, thereby keeping it cold for as long as possible. The proposed solution avoids the use of…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Cláudio C. Pellegrini

We are interested in the thermal insulation of a bounded open set $\Omega$ surrounded by a set whose thickness is locally described by $\varepsilon h$, where $h$ is a non-negative function defined on the boundary $\partial\Omega$. We study…

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