The study of optimal shape design can be arrived at by asking the following question: What is the best shape for a physical system? This book is an applications-oriented study of such physical systems; in particular, those which can be described by an elliptic partial differential equation and where the shape is found by the minimum of a single criterion function. There are many problems of this type in high-technology industries. In fact, most numerical simulations of physical systems are solved not to gain better understanding of the phenomena but to obtain better control and design....
The study of optimal shape design can be arrived at by asking the following question: What is the best shape for a physical system? This book is an ap...