On the energy of a flow arising in shape optimization

  • Pierre Cardaliaguet

    Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
  • Olivier Ley

    Université de Tours, France

Abstract

In [8] we have defined a viscosity solution for the gradient flow of the exterior Bernoulli free boundary problem. We prove here that the associated energy is non increasing along the flow. For this we build a discrete gradient flow in the flavour of Almgren, Taylor and Wang [2].

Cite this article

Pierre Cardaliaguet, Olivier Ley, On the energy of a flow arising in shape optimization. Interfaces Free Bound. 10 (2008), no. 2, pp. 223–243

DOI 10.4171/IFB/187