Special Session 142: Recent developments for PDE constrained shape and topological optimization and their applications

Efficient iterative-convolution thresholding methods for interface related optimization problems
Dong Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen International Center for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Dong Wang
Abstract:
Interface related problems have a lot of applications in fluid dynamics, material science, image processing, shape and topology optimization, and so on. In this talk, we propose to use indicator functions to implicitly represent the interface, introduce a concave approximation to the energy/objective functional, and derive an unconditionally stable iterative method for interface related problems. We will introduce a topology optimization problem as one example for optimization cases. Some other applications including image segmentation, configuration of foam bubbles, optimal partition will also be presented.