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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…

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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

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…

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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

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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In this paper we consider a minimization problem of the type $$ I_{\beta,p}(D;\Omega)=\inf\biggl\{\int_\Omega \lvert{D\phi}\rvert^pdx+\beta \int_{\partial^* \Omega}\lvert{\phi}\rvert^pd\mathcal{H}^{n-1},\; \phi \in W^{1,p}(\Omega),\;\phi…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-07-11 Rosa Barbato

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

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-12 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Carlo Nitsch

We analyze the contact Hele-Shaw problem with zero surface tension of a free boundary in a thin domain $\Omega^{\varepsilon}(t).$ Under suitable conditions on the given data, the one-valued local classical solvability of the problem for…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-03 Taras Mel'nyk , Nataliya Vasylyeva

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

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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Using the notion of Gamma-convergence, we discuss the limiting behavior of the 3d nonlinear elastic energy for thin elliptic shells, as their thickness h converges to zero, under the assumption that the elastic energy of deformations scales…

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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..…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-08-29 Dorin Bucur , Giuseppe Buttazzo , Carlo Nitsch

We investigate the spectral properties of a differential elliptic operator on $H^1(\bar{\Omega}\cup \Sigma)$, where $\Omega$ is a smooth domain surrounded by a layer $\Sigma$. The thickness of the layer is given by $\varepsilon h$, where…

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We consider a family of three-dimensional stiffened plates whose dimensions are scaled through different powers of a small parameter $\varepsilon$. The plate and the stiffener are assumed to be linearly elastic, isotropic, and homogeneous.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-08-23 Marco Picchi Scardaoni , Roberto Paroni

In this section, we consider the heat equation on a plate with thickness h > 0 being heated by a heat source on upper and lower faces of the plate. We obtain an asymptotic profile of the solution as the thickness h > 0 approaches to zero.

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-09-21 Eun-ho Lee , Woocheol Choi

We present a quantitative estimate for the radially symmetric configuration concerning a Serrin-type overdetermined problem for the torsional rigidity in a bounded domain $\Omega $, when the equation is known on $\Omega \setminus…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-05-12 Serena Dipierro , Giorgio Poggesi , Enrico Valdinoci

We study the insulated conductivity problem with closely spaced insulators embedded in a homogeneous matrix where the current-electric field relation is the power law $J = |E|^{p-2}E$. The gradient of solutions may blow up as $\varepsilon$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-05-12 Hongjie Dong , Zhuolun Yang , Hanye Zhu

We consider the spectral problem \begin{equation*} \left\{\begin{array}{ll} -\Delta u_{\varepsilon}=\lambda(\varepsilon)\rho_{\varepsilon}u_{\varepsilon} & {\rm in}\ \Omega\\ \frac{\partial u_{\varepsilon}}{\partial\nu}=0 & {\rm on}\…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-05-08 Matteo Dalla Riva , Luigi Provenzano
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