Computational Shape Derivatives in Heat Conduction: An Optimization Approach for Enhanced Thermal Performance

We analyze an optimization problem of the conductivity in a composite material arising in a heat conduction energy storage problem. The model is described by the heat equation that specifies the heat exchange between two types of materials with different conductive properties with Dirichlet-Neumann boundary conditions on the external part of the domain, and on the interface characterized by the resisting coefficient between the highly conductive material and the less conductive material. The main purpose of the paper is to compute a shape gradient of an optimization functional in order to accurately determine the optimal location of the conductive material using a classical shape optimization strategy. We also present some numerical experiments to illustrate the efficiency of the proposed method

Boundary stabilization of numerical approximations of the 1-D variable coefficients wave equation: A numerical viscosity approach

In this paper, we consider the boundary stabilization problem associated to the 1- d wave equation with both variable density and diffusion coefficients and to its finite difference semi-discretizations. It is well-known that, for the finite difference semi-discretization of the constant coefficients wave equation on uniform meshes (Tébou and Zuazua, Adv. Comput. Math. 26:337–365, 2007) or on somenon-uniform meshes (Marica and Zuazua, BCAM, 2013, preprint), the discrete decay rate fails to be uniform with respect to the mesh-size parameter. We prove that, under suitable regularity assumptions on the coefficients and after adding an appropriate artificial viscosity to the numerical scheme, the decay rate is uniform as the mesh-size tends to zero. This extends previous results in Tébou and Zuazua (Adv. Comput.Math. 26:337–365, 2007) on the constant coefficient wave equation. The methodology of proof consists in applying the classical multiplier technique at the discrete level, with a multiplier adapted to the variable coefficients

Explicit approximate controllability of the Schr\"odinger equation with a polarizability term

We consider a controlled Schr\"odinger equation with a dipolar and a polarizability term, used when the dipolar approximation is not valid. The control is the amplitude of the external electric field, it acts non linearly on the state. We extend in this infinite dimensional framework previous techniques used by Coron, Grigoriu, Lefter and Turinici for stabilization in finite dimension. We consider a highly oscillating control and prove the semi-global weak $H^2$ stabilization of the averaged system using a Lyapunov function introduced by Nersesyan. Then it is proved that the solutions of the Schr\"odinger equation and of the averaged equation stay close on every finite time horizon provided that the control is oscillating enough. Combining these two results, we get approximate controllability to the ground state for the polarizability system

Uniform stability estimates for the discrete Calderon problems

In this article, we focus on the analysis of discrete versions of the Calderon problem in dimension d \geq 3. In particular, our goal is to obtain stability estimates for the discrete Calderon problems that hold uniformly with respect to the discretization parameter. Our approach mimics the one in the continuous setting. Namely, we shall prove discrete Carleman estimates for the discrete Laplace operator. A main difference with the continuous ones is that there, the Carleman parameters cannot be taken arbitrarily large, but should be smaller than some frequency scale depending on the mesh size. Following the by-now classical Complex Geometric Optics (CGO) approach, we can thus derive discrete CGO solutions, but with limited range of parameters. As in the continuous case, we then use these solutions to obtain uniform stability estimates for the discrete Calderon problems.Comment: 38 pages, 2 figure

Exact Controllability of the Time Discrete Wave Equation: A Multiplier Approach

In this paper we summarize our recent results on the exact boundary controllability of a trapezoidal time discrete wave equation in a bounded domain. It is shown that the projection of the solution in an appropriate space in which the high frequencies have been filtered is exactly controllable with uniformly bounded controls (with respect to the time-step). By classical duality arguments, the problem is reduced to a boundary observability inequality for a time-discrete wave equation. Using multiplier techniques the uniform observability property is proved in a class of filtered initial data. The optimality of the filtering parameter is also analyzed

NUMERICAL SIMULATION ON A FIXED MESH FOR THE FEEDBACK STABILIZATION OF A FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION SYSTEM WITH A STRUCTURE GIVEN BY A FINITE NUMBER OF PARAMETERS

International audienceWe study the numerical approximation of a 2d fluid-structure interaction problem stabilizing the fluid flow around an unstable stationary solution in presence of boundary perturbations. The structure is governed by a finite number of parameters and a feedback control law acts on their accelerations. The existence of strong solutions and the stabilization of this fluid-structure system were recently studied in [3]. The present work is dedicated to the numerical simulation of the problem using a fictitious domain method based on extended Finite Element [4]. The originality of the present work is to propose efficient numerical tools that can be extended in a simple manner to any fluid-structure control simulation. Numerical tests are given and the stabilization at an exponential decay rate is observed for small enough initial perturbations