Optimal Heat Distribution Using Asymptotic Analysis Techniques

Abstract

In this chapter, we consider the optimization problem of a heat distribution on a bounded domain Ω containing a heat source at an unknown location ω⊂Ω. More precisely, we are interested in the best location of ω allowing a suitable thermal environment. For this propose, we consider the minimization of the maximum temperature and its L2 mean oscillations. We extend the notion of topological derivative to the case of local coated perturbation and we perform the asymptotic expansion of the considered shape functionals. In order to reconstruct the location of ω, we propose a one-shot algorithm based on the topological derivative. Finally, we present some numerical experiments in two dimensional case, showing the efficiency of the proposed method.