On the design of membranes with increasing fundamental frequency

By means of a relaxation approach, we study the shape design of a stiff inclusion with given area in a membrane in order to maximize its fundamental frequency. As an eigenvalue control problem, the fundamental frequency is a concave function of the control, which is not described by the membrane shape, but by an element in a function space. First order optimality conditions allow to describe the optimal shape by means of a free boundary value problem.

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Main Author: González De Paz,Raúl B.
Format: Digital revista
Language:English
Published: Centro de Investigaciones en Matemática Pura y Aplicada (CIMPA) y Escuela de Matemática, San José, Costa Rica. 2014
Online Access:http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1409-24332014000100004
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