
1 Introduction to shape optimization.- 1.1. Preface.- 2 Preliminaries and the material derivative method.- 2.1. Domains in ?N of class Ck.- Surface measures on ?.- 2.3. Functional spaces.- 2.4. Linear elliptic boundary value problems.- 2.5. Shape functionals.- 2.6. Shape functionals...

Shape Optimization is a classical field of the calculus of variations, optimal control theory and structural optimization. In this book the authors discuss the shape calculus introduced by J. Hadamard and extend it to a broad class of free boundary value problems. The approach...