TY - JOUR T1 - On Finite Element Approximations to a Shape Gradient Flow in Shape Optimization of Elliptic Problems AU - Liu , Chunxiao AU - Zhu , Shengfeng JO - Journal of Computational Mathematics VL - 5 SP - 956 EP - 979 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/05 SN - 41 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2208-m2020-0142 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jcm/21681.html KW - Shape optimization, Shape gradient, Eulerian derivative, Finite element, Error estimate. AB -

Shape gradient flows are widely used in numerical shape optimization algorithms. We investigate the accuracy and effectiveness of approximate shape gradients flows for shape optimization of elliptic problems. We present convergence analysis with a priori error estimates for finite element approximations of shape gradient flows associated with a distributed or boundary expression of Eulerian derivative. Numerical examples are presented to verify theory and show that using the volume expression is effective for shape optimization with Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions.