A Method for Geometry Optimization in a Simple Model of Two-Dimensional Heat Transfer

DOI10.1137/120870499zbMATH Open1282.80007arXiv1307.1248OpenAlexW2962984986MaRDI QIDQ2870658

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Publication date: 21 January 2014

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This investigation is motivated by the problem of optimal design of cooling elements in modern battery systems. We consider a simple model of two-dimensional steady-state heat conduction described by elliptic partial differential equations and involving a one-dimensional cooling element represented by a contour on which interface boundary conditions are specified. The problem consists in finding an optimal shape of the cooling element which will ensure that the solution in a given region is close (in the least squares sense) to some prescribed target distribution. We formulate this problem as PDE-constrained optimization and the locally optimal contour shapes are found using a gradient-based descent algorithm in which the Sobolev shape gradients are obtained using methods of the shape-differential calculus. The main novelty of this work is an accurate and efficient approach to the evaluation of the shape gradients based on a boundary-integral formulation which exploits certain analytical properties of the solution and does not require grids adapted to the contour. This approach is thoroughly validated and optimization results obtained in different test problems exhibit nontrivial shapes of the computed optimal contours.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.1248

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Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces (49Q10) Optimization problems in thermodynamics and heat transfer (80M50) Boundary element methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N38) Sensitivity analysis for optimization problems on manifolds (49Q12) PDEs in connection with control and optimization (35Q93)