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Shape optimization involves the minimization of a cost function defined over a set of shapes, often governed by a partial differential equation (PDE). In the absence of closed-form solutions, one relies on numerical methods to approximate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-21 Eloi Martinet , Leon Bungert

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 is concerned with the problem of shape optimization of two-dimensional flows governed by the time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations. We derive the structures of shape gradients with respect to the shape of the variable domain for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zhiming Gao , Yichen Ma , Hongwei Zhuang

In the present work, a new computational framework for structural topology optimization based on the concept of moving deformable components is proposed. Compared with the traditional pixel or node point-based solution framework, the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-06-23 Xu Guo , Weisheng Zhang , Wenliang Zhong

The differential-geometric structure of the manifold of smooth shapes is applied to the theory of shape optimization problems. In particular, a Riemannian shape gradient with respect to the first Sobolev metric and the Steklov-Poincar\'{e}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Kathrin Welker

In this work, we develop a computational framework that aims at simultaneously optimizing the shape and the slip velocity of an axisymmetric microswimmer suspended in a viscous fluid. We consider shapes of a given reduced volume that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Ruowen Liu , Hai Zhu , Hanliang Guo , Marc Bonnet , Shravan Veerapaneni

In this paper, we introduce a new shape functional defined for toroidal domains that we call harmonic helicity, and study its shape optimization. Given a toroidal domain, we consider its associated harmonic field. The latter is the magnetic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-08 Remi Robin , Robin Roussel

Mode-based model-reduction is used to reduce the degrees of freedom of high dimensional systems, often by describing the system state by a linear combination of spatial modes. Transport dominated phenomena, ubiquitous in technical and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-28 Julius Reiss

The paper is concerned with a node-based, gradient-driven, continuous adjoint two-phase flow procedure to optimize the shapes of free-floating vessels and discusses three topics. First, we aim to convey that elements of a Cahn-Hilliard…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-02-10 Niklas Kühl , Thanh Tung Nguyen , Michael Palm , Dirk Jürgens , Thomas Rung

We study the fluid-mediated approach of a deformable axisymmetric object towards a rigid substrate, focusing on how its shape influences contact formation. For low approach velocities and large Stokes numbers, we show that sharper profiles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-21 Joaquin Garcia-Suarez

This paper presents a topology optimization approach for surface flows, which can represent the viscous and incompressible fluidic motions at the solid/liquid and liquid/vapor interfaces. The fluidic motions on such material interfaces can…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Yongbo Deng , Weihong Zhang , Jihong Zhu , Junqiang Bai , Zhenyu Liu , Jan G. Korvink

This investigation is motivated by the problem of optimal design of cooling elements in modern battery systems. We consider a simple model of two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction described by elliptic partial differential equations…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Xiaohui Peng , Katsiaryna Niakhai , Bartosz Protas

We consider the shape optimization of an object in Navier--Stokes flow by employing a combined phase field and porous medium approach, along with additional perimeter regularization. By considering integral control and state constraints, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Harald Garcke , Michael Hinze , Christian Kahle , Kei Fong Lam

Shapes do not define a linear space. This paper explores the linear structure of deformations as a representation of shapes. This transforms shape optimization to a variant of optimal control. The numerical challenges of this point of view…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-15 Stephan Schmidt , Volker H. Schulz

A method for density-based topology optimization of heat exchangers with two fluids is proposed. The goal of the optimization process is to maximize the heat transfer from one fluid to the other, under maximum pressure drop constraints for…

A crucial problem in shape deformation analysis is to determine a deformation of a given shape into another one, which is optimal for a certain cost. It has a number of applications in particular in medical imaging. In this article we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-06 Sylvain Arguillere , Emmanuel Trélat , Alain Trouvé , Laurent Younes

This work focuses on numerically solving a shape identification problem related to advection-diffusion processes with space-dependent coefficients using shape optimization techniques. Two boundary-type cost functionals are considered, and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Elmehdi Cherrat , Lekbir Afraites , Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago

In this article we propose a scalable shape optimization algorithm which is tailored for large scale problems and geometries represented by hierarchically refined meshes. Weak scalability and grid independent convergence is achieved via a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-09 Jose Pinzon , Martin Siebenborn

We investigate a fixed domain approach in shape optimization, using a regularization of the Heaviside function both in the cost functional and in the state system. We consider the compliance minimization problem in linear elasticity, a well…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

We apply a phase field approach for a general shape optimization problem of a stationary Navier-Stokes flow. To be precise we add a multiple of the Ginzburg--Landau energy as a regularization to the objective functional and relax the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-22 Harald Garcke , Claudia Hecht