Stochastic level-set method for shape optimisation

DOI10.1016/J.JCP.2017.07.010MaRDI QIDQ1694610zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lester O. Hedges, H. Alicia Kim, Robert L. Jack

Publication date 6 February 2018

Published in Journal of Computational Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.04681

zbMATH Keywords

level-set methodstochastic motion of shape boundariestopology optimisation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Discrete approximations in optimal control (49M25) Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Probabilistic models, generic numerical methods in probability and statistics (65C20) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10)

Abstract: We present a new method for stochastic shape optimisation of engineering structures. The method generalises an existing deterministic scheme, in which the structure is represented and evolved by a level-set method coupled with mathematical programming. The stochastic element of the algorithm is built on the methods of statistical mechanics and is designed so that the system explores a Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution of structures. In non-convex optimisation problems, the deterministic algorithm can get trapped in local optima: the stochastic generalisation enables sampling of multiple local optima, which aids the search for the globally-optimal structure. The method is demonstrated for several simple geometrical problems, and a proof-of-principle calculation is shown for a simple engineering structure.

Recommendations

• Shape Optimization Under Uncertainty—A Stochastic Programming Perspective
• Stochastic approximation for optimization in shape spaces
• Stochastic topology optimization based on level-set method
• Robust shape optimization of continuous structures via the level set method
• Shape optimization under uncertainty from a stochastic programming point of view.

Cites work

• A new hole insertion method for level set based structural topology optimization
• A theory of regularity structures
• Design of multiphysics actuators using topology optimization. I: One-material structures. II: Two-material structures.
• Level set methods and dynamic implicit surfaces
• Material interpolation schemes in topology optimization
• On the usefulness of non-gradient approaches in topology optimization
• Stochastic differential equations. An introduction with applications.
• Stochastic motion and the level set method in computer vision: stochastic active contours
• Stochastic processes and applications. Diffusion processes, the Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations
• Structural optimization using sensitivity analysis and a level-set method.
• Structural topology design optimization using genetic algorithms with a bit-array representation
• Uniqueness of motion by mean curvature perturbed by stochastic noise.

Cited in

(10)

• A level-set method for shape optimization.
• A-SLEIPNNIR: a multiscale, anisotropic adaptive, particle level set framework for moving interfaces. Transport equation applications
• Shape reconstruction in seismic full waveform inversion using a level set approach and time reversal
• Level set topology optimization with nodally integrated reproducing kernel particle method
• On shape optimization with stochastic loadings
• Stochastic topology optimization based on level-set method
• Shape Optimization Under Uncertainty—A Stochastic Programming Perspective
• Shape optimizationviaa levelset and a Gauss-Newton method
• Stochastic approximation for optimization in shape spaces
• SearchFill: A stochastic optimization code for detecting atomic vacancies in crystalline and non-crystalline systems

This page was built for publication: Stochastic level-set method for shape optimisation

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1694610)