Plates and Shells

Plates and Shells
Author: Michel Fortin
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1999
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821809504

This volume features the proceedings from the Summer Seminar of the Canadian Mathematical Society held at Université Laval. The purpose of the seminar was to gather both mathematicians and engineers interested in the theory or application of plates and shells, or more generally, in the modelisation of thin structures. From this, it was hoped that a better understanding of the problem would emerge for both groups of professionals. New aspects from the mathematical point of view and new applications posing new challenges are reported. This volume offers a snapshot of the state of the art of this rapidly evolving topic.

Shapes and Geometries

Shapes and Geometries
Author: M. C. Delfour
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0898719828

This considerably enriched new edition provides a self-contained presentation of the mathematical foundations, constructions, and tools necessary for studying problems where the modeling, optimization, or control variable is the shape or the structure of a geometric object.

Boundaries, Interfaces, and Transitions

Boundaries, Interfaces, and Transitions
Author: Michel C. Delfour
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1998
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780821805053

This book brings together tools that have been developed in a priori distant areas of mathematics, mechanics and physics. It provides coverage of selected contemporary problems in the areas of optimal design, mathematical models in material sciences, hysteresis, superconductivity, phase transition, crystal growth, moving boundary problems, thin shells and some of the associated numerical issues.

Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations

Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations
Author: Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3034886918

The application of PDE-based control theory and the corresponding numerical algorithms to industrial problems have become increasingly important in recent years. This volume offers a wide spectrum of aspects of the discipline, and is of interest to mathematicians and scientists working in the field.

Shapes and Geometries

Shapes and Geometries
Author: Michel C. Delfour
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780898714890

The tools to use for problems where the modeling, optimization, or control variable is the structure of a geometric object.

Transfinite Interpolation and Eulerian/Lagrangian Dynamics

Transfinite Interpolation and Eulerian/Lagrangian Dynamics
Author: André Garon
Publisher: SIAM
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-03-25
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1611976952

This book introduces transfinite interpolation as a generalization of interpolation of data prescribed at a finite number of points to data prescribed on a geometrically structured set, such as a piece of curve, surface, or submanifold. The time-independent theory is readily extended to a moving/deforming data set whose dynamics is specified in a Eulerian or Lagrangian framework. The resulting innovative tools cover a very broad spectrum of applications in fluid mechanics, geometric optimization, and imaging. The authors chose to focus on the dynamical mesh updating in fluid mechanics and the construction of velocity fields from the boundary expression of the shape derivative. Transfinite Interpolations and Eulerian/Lagrangian Dynamics is a self-contained graduate-level text that integrates theory, applications, numerical approximations, and computational techniques. It applies transfinite interpolation methods to finite element mesh adaptation and ALE fluid-structure interaction. Specialists in applied mathematics, physics, mechanics, computational sciences, imaging sciences, and engineering will find this book of interest.

Modern Aspects of the Theory of Partial Differential Equations

Modern Aspects of the Theory of Partial Differential Equations
Author: Michael Ruzhansky
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2011-05-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 303480069X

The book provides a quick overview of a wide range of active research areas in partial differential equations. The book can serve as a useful source of information to mathematicians, scientists and engineers. The volume contains contributions from authors from a large variety of countries on different aspects of partial differential equations, such as evolution equations and estimates for their solutions, control theory, inverse problems, nonlinear equations, elliptic theory on singular domains, numerical approaches.

New Trends in Shape Optimization

New Trends in Shape Optimization
Author: Aldo Pratelli
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3319175637

This volume reflects “New Trends in Shape Optimization” and is based on a workshop of the same name organized at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg in September 2013. During the workshop senior mathematicians and young scientists alike presented their latest findings. The format of the meeting allowed fruitful discussions on challenging open problems, and triggered a number of new and spontaneous collaborations. As such, the idea was born to produce this book, each chapter of which was written by a workshop participant, often with a collaborator. The content of the individual chapters ranges from survey papers to original articles; some focus on the topics discussed at the Workshop, while others involve arguments outside its scope but which are no less relevant for the field today. As such, the book offers readers a balanced introduction to the emerging field of shape optimization.

Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations

Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations
Author: Karl Kunisch
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2009-12-03
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3764389230

Contains contributions originating from the 'Conference on Optimal Control of Coupled Systems of Partial Differential Equations', held at the 'Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach' in March 2008. This work covers a range of topics such as controllability, optimality systems, model-reduction techniques, and fluid-structure interactions.