Harbrecht, Helmut; Tausch, Johannes On the numerical solution of a shape optimization problem for the heat equation. (English) Zbl 1264.65156 SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 35, No. 1, A104-A121 (2013). Summary: The paper is concerned with the numerical solution of a shape identification problem for the heat equation. The goal is to determine of the shape of a void or an inclusion of zero temperature from measurements of the temperature and the heat flux at the exterior boundary. This nonlinear and ill-posed shape identification problem is reformulated in terms of three different shape optimization problems: (a) minimization of a least-squares energy variational functional, (b) tracking of the Dirichlet data, and (c) tracking of the Neumann data. The states and their adjoint equations are expressed as parabolic boundary integral equations and solved using a Nyström discretization and a space-time fast multipole method for the rapid evaluation of thermal potentials. Special quadrature rules are derived to handle singularities of the kernel and the solution. Numerical experiments are carried out to demonstrate and compare the different formulations. Cited in 1 ReviewCited in 21 Documents MSC: 65M32 Numerical methods for inverse problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 35K05 Heat equation 65M30 Numerical methods for ill-posed problems for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs 35R25 Ill-posed problems for PDEs 35R30 Inverse problems for PDEs 49Q10 Optimization of shapes other than minimal surfaces 65K10 Numerical optimization and variational techniques 65M38 Boundary element methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs Keywords:shape optimization; heat equation; multipole method; nonlinear ill-posed problem; inverse problem; shape identification; parabolic boundary integral equations; Nyström discretization; numerical experiments PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{H. Harbrecht} and \textit{J. Tausch}, SIAM J. Sci. Comput. 35, No. 1, A104--A121 (2013; Zbl 1264.65156) Full Text: DOI