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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 work develops an algorithm for PDE-constrained shape optimization based on Lipschitz transformations. Building on previous work in this field, the $p$-Laplace operator is utilized to approximate a descent method for Lipschitz shapes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-24 Peter Marvin Müller , Jose Pinzon , Thomas Rung , Martin Siebenborn

We consider the existence of optimal shapes in the context of the thermomechanical system of partial differential equations (PDE) using the recent approach based on elliptic regularity theory. We give an extended and improved definition of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-05 Laura Bittner , Hanno Gottschalk

The present contribution investigates shape optimisation problems for a class of semilinear elliptic variational inequalities with Neumann boundary conditions. Sensitivity estimates and material derivatives are firstly derived in an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Christian Heinemann , Kevin Sturm

Minimizing the so-called "Dirichlet energy" with respect to the domain under a volume constraint is a standard problem in shape optimization which is now well understood. This article is devoted to a prototypal non-linear version of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-19 Antoine Henrot , Idriss Mazari , Yannick Privat

We introduce a novel mesh-free and direct method for computing the shape derivative in PDE-constrained shape optimization problems. Our approach is based on a probabilistic representation of the shape derivative and is applicable for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Luka Schlegel , Volker Schulz , Frank T. Seifried , Maximilian Würschmidt

In this survey paper we present a class of shape optimization problems where the cost function involves the solution of a PDE of elliptic type in the unknown domain. In particular, we consider cost functions which depend on the spectrum of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-12-16 Giuseppe Buttazzo

We prove global convergence in function space for the steepest descent method in shape optimisation with semilinear elliptic partial differential equations. Steepest descent is realized in the Lipschitz topology. In addition, we prove a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-04 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze

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

Deformations of the computational mesh arising from optimization routines usually lead to decrease of mesh quality or even destruction of the mesh. We propose a theoretical framework using pre-shapes to generalize classical shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-18 Daniel Luft , Volker Schulz

In this paper we study an abstract framework for computing shape derivatives of functionals subject to PDE constraints. We revisit the Lagrangian approach using the implicit function theorem in an abstract setting tailored for applications…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-03 Antoine Laurain , Pedro T. P. Lopes , Jean C. Nakasato

This article introduces a novel method for the implementation of shape optimisation with Lipschitz domains. We propose to use the shape derivative to determine deformation fields which represent steepest descent directions of the shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-12-15 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze

This paper is concerned with a shape optimization problem governed by a non-smooth PDE, i.e., the nonlinearity in the state equation is not necessarily differentiable. We follow the functional variational approach of [40] where the set of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-10 Livia Betz

In this work, we investigate a particular class of shape optimization problems under uncertainties on the input parameters. More precisely, we are interested in the minimization of the expectation of a quadratic objective in a situation…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-06-01 M. Dambrine , C. Dapogny , H. Harbrecht

We present a general shape optimisation framework based on the method of mappings in the $W^{1,\infty}$ topology. We propose steepest descent and Newton-like minimisation algorithms for the numerical solution of the respective shape…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Klaus Deckelnick , Philip J. Herbert , Michael Hinze

Recent progress in PDE constrained optimization on shape manifolds is based on the Hadamard form of shape derivatives, i.e., in the form of integrals at the boundary of the shape under investigation, as well as on intrinsic shape metrics.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Volker Schulz , Martin Siebenborn , Kathrin Welker

Shape calculus concerns the calculation of directional derivatives of some quantity of interest, typically expressed as an integral. This article introduces a type of shape calculus based on localized dilation of boundary faces through…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Martin Berggren

We consider discretized two-dimensional PDE-constrained shape optimization problems, in which shapes are represented by triangular meshes. Given the connectivity, the space of admissible vertex positions was recently identified to be a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Roland Herzog , Estefanía Loayza-Romero

In this work, the problem of shape optimization, subject to PDE constraints, is reformulated as an $L^p$ best approximation problem under divergence constraints to the shape tensor introduced in Laurain and Sturm: ESAIM Math. Model. Numer.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Gerhard Starke

This paper presents a mathematical analysis of an elliptic partial differential equation (PDE) designed to compute the geometric thickness of a given shape. The PDE-based formulation provides a direct and systematic approach to evaluate…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Atsushi Nakayasu , Takayuki Yamada
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