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A general procedure to perform shape design sensitivity analysis for two-dimensional periodic thermal diffusion problems is developed using boundary integral equation formulation. The material derivative concept to describe shape variation is used. The temperature is decomposed into a steady state component and a perturbation component. The adjoint variable method is used by utilizing integral identities for each component. The primal and adjoint systems are solved by boundary element method. The sensitivity results compared with those by finite difference show good accuracy. The shape optimal design problem of a plunger model for the panel of a television bulb, which operates periodically, is solved as an example. Different objectives and amounts of heat flux allowed are studied. Corresponding optimum shapes of the cooling boundary of the plunger are obtained and discussed.
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Received 15 August 2001 / Accepted 28 February 2002
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Lee, D., Kwak, B. Shape design sensitivity analysis and optimization of two-dimensional periodic thermal problems using BEM. Computational Mechanics 29, 98–106 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-002-0319-x
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-002-0319-x