Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Systems
Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Systems The study of optimal shape design can be arrived at by asking the following question: "What is the best shape for a physical system?" This book is an…
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Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Systems
The study of optimal shape design can be arrived at by asking the following question: "What is the best shape for a physical system?" This book is an applications-oriented study of such physical systems; in particular, those which can be described by an elliptic partial differential equation and where the shape is found by the minimum of a single criterion function. In fact, most numerical simulations of physical systems are solved not to gain better understanding of the phenomena but to obtain better control and design. There are many problems of this type in high-technology industries.
Traditionally, optimal shape design has been treated as a branch of the calculus of variations and more specifically of optimal control. Problems of this type are described in Chapter 2. This subject interfaces with no less than four fields: optimization, optimal control, partial differential equations (PDEs), and their numerical solutions-this is the most difficult aspect of the subject.
Each of these fields is reviewed briefly: PDEs (Chapter 1), optimization (Chapter 4), optimal control (Chapter 5), and numerical methods (Chapters 1 and 4).