Abstract
In this chapter we
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Define what is meant by optimal shape design and give examples.
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Review some historical developments of the subject.
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Give an informal argument to illustrate the method used here to solve these problems.
Concurrently, we introduce some concrete examples of optimal shape design problems, and we give some indication of the likely future developments of this field in industry.
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Pironneau, O. (1984). Problem Statement. In: Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Systems. Springer Series in Computational Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87722-3_2
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