Sensitivity analysis and optimal shape design are key issues in engineering that have been affected by advances in numerical tools currently available. This book, and its supplementary online files, presents basic optimization techniques that can be used to compute the sensitivity of a given design to local change, or to improve its performance by local optimization of these data. The relevance and scope of these techniques have improved dramatically in recent years because of progress in discretization strategies, optimization algorithms, automatic differentiation, software availability, and the power of personal computers. 
Numerical Methods in Sensitivity Analysis and Shape Optimization will be of interest to graduate students involved in mathematical modeling and simulation, as well as engineers and researchers in applied mathematics looking for an up-to-date introduction to optimization techniques, sensitivity analysis, and optimal design.

Numerical Methods in Sensitivity Analysis and Shape Optimization

Computers & Technology

Le Tallec, Patrick

Laporte, Emmanuel

Computer Science

Birkhauser

A need for a deeper understanding of the convergence properties of augmented Lagrangian algorithms and of their relationship to operator-splitting methods such as alternating-methods direction and the development of more efficient algorithms prompted the authors to write this book. The volume is oriented to applications in continuum mechanics. This volume deals with the numerical simulation of the behavior of continuous media by augmented Lagrangian and operator-splitting methods (coupled to finite-element approximations). It begins with a description of the mechanical and mathematical frameworks of the considered applications as well as a general analysis of the basic numerical methods additionally used to study them. These ideas are then applied to specific classes of mechanical problems.

Augmented Lagrangian and Operator-Splitting Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics (Studies in Applied and Numerical Mathematics)

Science & Math

Glowinski, Roland

Mathematics

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Numerical Methods in Sensitivity Analysis and Shape Optimization (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)

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