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An embedding domain technique is proposed to characterize the gradient of shape optimization problems. A discussion of the numerical realization of the arising saddle point problems is given and numerical feasibility of the gradient information is discussed.
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Kunisch, K., Peichl, G. Numerical Gradients for Shape Optimization Based on Embedding Domain Techniques. Computational Optimization and Applications 18, 95–114 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008779803348
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