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We establish a shape-derivative formula for the Dirichlet-to-Neumann operator on a compact manifold. Then, we apply this formula to obtain the well-posedness in H 1 under a specific Rayleigh-Taylor condition to an equation describing cell…

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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…

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