Larnier, Stanislas; Masmoudi, Mohamed The extended adjoint method. (English) Zbl 1271.65102 ESAIM, Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 47, No. 1, 83-108 (2013). Authors’ abstract: Searching for the optimal partitioning of a domain leads to the use of the adjoint method in topological asymptotic expansions to know the influence of a domain perturbation on a cost function. Our approach works by restricting to local subproblems containing the perturbation and outperforms the adjoint method by providing approximations of higher order. It is a universal tool, easily adapted to different kinds of real problems and does not need the fundamental solution of the problem; furthermore our approach allows to consider finite perturbations and not infinitesimal ones. This paper provides theoretical justifications in the linear case and presents some applications with topological perturbations, continuous perturbations and mesh perturbations. This proposed approach can also be used to update the solution of singularly perturbed problems. Reviewer: Bülent Karasözen (Ankara) Cited in 3 Documents MSC: 65K10 Numerical optimization and variational techniques 49Q10 Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces 49Q12 Sensitivity analysis for optimization problems on manifolds 74P10 Optimization of other properties in solid mechanics 74P15 Topological methods for optimization problems in solid mechanics Keywords:adjoint method; topology optimization; calculus of variations PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. Larnier} and \textit{M. Masmoudi}, ESAIM, Math. Model. Numer. Anal. 47, No. 1, 83--108 (2013; Zbl 1271.65102) Full Text: DOI