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We study a free boundary problem which is motivated by a particular case of the flow of a non-Newtonian fluid, with a pressure depending yield stress given by a Drucker-Prager plasticity criterion. We focus on the steady case and…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-01-19 Eleftherios Ntovoris , M Regis

We study weak solutions for a class of free boundary problems which includes as a special case the classical problem of traveling waves on water of finite depth. We show that such problems are equivalent to problems in fixed domains and…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2009-10-04 Eugen Varvaruca

We present in this paper a result about existence and convexity of solutions to a free boundary problem of Bernoulli type, with non constant gradient boundary constraint depending on the outer unit normal. In particular we prove that, in…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-09-08 Chiara Bianchini

We consider a family of steady free-surface flow problems in two dimensions, concentrating on the effect of nonlinearity on the train of gravity waves that appear downstream of a disturbance. By exploiting standard complex variable…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-03-14 Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Timothy J. Moroney , Scott W. McCue

This work is concerned with an inverse elastic scattering problem of identifying the unknown rigid obstacle embedded in an open space filled with a homogeneous and isotropic elastic medium. A Newton-type iteration method relying on the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-13 Yan Chang , Yukun Guo , Hongyu Liu , Deyue Zhang

This brief note addresses the free boundary problem arising from the steady two-dimensional seepage flow through a rectangular dam. The flow problem consists in finding the free boundary location, and the velocity and pressure fields. The…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-07-21 Carmine Di Nucci

We study a class of degenerate hyperbolic equations in a bounded domain whose degeneracy occurs at a boundary point. We first develop the weighted functional framework, prove well-posedness of the degenerate problem, and establish…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Dong-Hui Yang , Jie Zhong

In this paper, we analyze the singular shape of the free boundary at degenerate points in a three dimensional axisymmetric compressible gravity flow. For all possible degenerate points on the free surface, we prove that the only nontrivial…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Lili Du , Chunlei Yang

We study a class of degenerate parabolic equations with boundary point degeneracy in dimensions N>=2 and investigate the associated boundary observability problem by means of shape design. While one-dimensional degenerate models have been…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-27 Donghui Yang , Jie Zhong

A non-conventional shape optimization approach is introduced to address the identification of an obstacle immersed in a fluid described by the Stokes equation within a larger bounded domain, relying on boundary measurements on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Julius Fergy Tiongson Rabago , Lekbir Afraites , Hirofumi Notsu

The recent approach based on Hamiltonian systems and the implicit parametri\-za\-tion theorem, provides a general fixed domain approximation method in shape optimization problems, using optimal control theory. In previous works, we have…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-03 Cornel Marius Murea , Dan Tiba

This paper studies the regularity of the free boundary for viscosity solutions to a parabolic Bernoulli-type free boundary problem with variable coefficients. The main result is that Lipschitz free boundaries are $C^1$ with a normal vector…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-04 Thomas Backing

In this work, we investigate the continuity of the free boundary in a class of elliptic problems, with Neuman boundary condition. The main idea is a change of variable that allows us to reduce the problem to the one studied in [14].

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-01-04 Abdeslem Lyaghfouri , Abderachid Saadi

In this paper, a novel immersed boundary method is developed, validated, and applied. Through devising a second-order three-step flow reconstruction scheme, the proposed method is able to enforce the Dirichlet, Neumann, Robin, and Cauchy…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-09-10 Huangrui Mo , Fue-Sang Lien , Fan Zhang , Duane S. Cronin

The aim of this paper is to study the shape optimization method for solving the Bernoulli free boundary problem, a well-known ill-posed problem that seeks the unknown free boundary through Cauchy data. Different formulations have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Wei Gong , Le Liu

A new derivation of the Bernoulli equation for water waves in three-dimensional rotating and translating coordinate systems is given. An alternative view on the Bateman-Luke variational principle is presented. The variational principle…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-04-22 Hamid Alemi Ardakani

Consider the parabolic free boundary problem $$ \Delta u - \partial_t u = 0 \textrm{in} \{u>0\}, |\nabla u|=1 \textrm{on} \partial\{u>0\} . $$ For a realistic class of solutions, containing for example {\em all} limits of the singular…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 J. Andersson , G. S. Weiss

We explore the use of the Gauss-Newton method for optimization in shape learning, including implicit neural surfaces and geometry-informed neural networks. The method addresses key challenges in shape learning, such as the ill-conditioning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 James King , Arturs Berzins , Siddhartha Mishra , Marius Zeinhofer

The nonlinear problem of steady free-surface flow past a submerged source is considered as a case study for three-dimensional ship wave problems. Of particular interest is the distinctive wedge-shaped wave pattern that forms on the surface…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2014-05-13 Ravindra Pethiyagoda , Scott W. McCue , Timothy J. Moroney , Julian M. Back

The present article is dedicated to proving convergence of the stochastic gradient method in case of random shape optimization problems. To that end, we consider Bernoulli's exterior free boundary problem with a random interior boundary. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-12 Marc Dambrine , Caroline Geiersbach , Helmut Harbrecht