Existence and relaxation problems in optimal shape design

DOI10.12775/TMNA.2000.036MaRDI QIDQ5929992zbMATH OpenFDO

Publication date 16 December 2001

Published in Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.12775/TMNA.2000.036

optimal solutions relaxation shape optimization

Existence theories for optimal control problems involving partial differential equations (49J20) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Optimization of other properties in solid mechanics (74P10)

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The paper deals with optimal shape design of the form NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\min\{J(\Omega, u):\Omega\in{\mathcal B},\;u\in S(\Omega)\},NEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(J\) is the cost functional, \(\Omega\) varies in a given class \({\mathcal B}\) of admissible domains of \(\mathbb{R}^N\), and \(S(\Omega)\) denotes the set of solutions of a state relation, which can be a PDE, a variational inequality, or a hemivariational inequality.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEUnder suitable geometrical constraints on the admissible domains of the class \({\mathcal B}\) it is known that the minimization problem above has a compactness property which makes possible, via direct methods of the calculus of variations, the proof of the existence of an optimal solution.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEWithout the geometrical constraints mentioned above, in general no optimal solution exists and a relaxation procedure is needed to study the behaviour of minimizing sequences. In the paper, starting from the results obtained in [\textit{G. Buttazzo} and \textit{G. Dal Maso}, Appl. Math. Optimization 23, No. 1, 17-49 (1991; Zbl 0762.49017)], the author studies the cases when the state equation is of partial differential type (elliptic, parabolic, hyperbolic) with Dirichlet conditions on the free boundary \(\partial\Omega\), presenting a relaxed formulation which involves measures of capacitary type, i.e., nonnegative Borel measures on \(\mathbb{R}^N\) which vanish on all sets of capacity zero.

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