Design Sensitivity Analysis (Q4786433)

The rough contents of this research monograph are as follows: 1. Introduction, 2. Mathematical framework for linear elliptic problems, 3. Model problems, 4. Computational algorithms, 5. Numerical results, 6. Mathematical framework for Navier-Stokes equations, 7. Two-dimensional flow problems, 8. Adaptive mesh refinement strategies, Bibliography, and an Index. The authors try to ellaborate the grounds of a theory as mathematical as possible in order to quantify the dependence of the solutions of some boundary value problems on the size of the domain. More explicitly, they describe how small perturbations in a parameter which defines the shape of the domain, affects the corresponding solution. They consider in turn boundary value problems for differential equations as well as for some linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (elliptic, moderate Reynolds number Navier-Stokes equations, etc.). However, they also pay a lot of attention to the computational aspects of the sensitivity (the derivative of the solution with respect to the parameter) by deriving and solving an equation known as the sensitivity equation. Consequently, a wealth of numerical experiments is carried out and the corresponding results are elegantly displayed.