1.Institut für Mathematik MA 4-5,Technische Universit?t Berlin,Berlin,Germany
Abstract:
We study a class of shape optimization problems for semi-linear elliptic equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions in smooth
domains in ℝ2. A part of the boundary of the domain is variable as the graph of a smooth function. The problem is equivalently reformulated
on a fixed domain. Continuity of the solution to the state equation with respect to domain variations is shown. This is used
to obtain differentiability in the general case, and moreover a useful formula for the gradient of the cost functional in
the case where the principal part of the differential operator is the Laplacian.
Online publication 23 January 2004.