Weak formulation of Hadamard variation applied to the filtration problem (Q645280)

An elliptic boundary value problem is considered, where the boundary of the bounded Lipschitz domain is perturbed. The problem at hand is referred to as the Hadamard variation. The authors present a weak formulation of this variation and apply it to the filtration/dam problem. They obtain first Hadamard variations of quantities that arise in the variational principle of this filtration/dam problem. In addition, the validy of the first variations is confirmed by a few numerical experiments. A new iterative scheme for the filtration/dam problem is presented and is illustrated by numerical experiments.