## On adjoint-based optimization of a free surface Stokes flow

• This work deals with the optimal control of a free surface Stokes flow which responds to an applied outer pressure. Typical applications are fiber spinning or thin film manufacturing. We present and discuss two adjoint-based optimization approaches that differ in the treatment of the free boundary as either state or control variable. In both cases the free boundary is modeled as the graph of a function. The PDE-constrained optimization problems are numerically solved by the BFGS method, where the gradient of the reduced cost function is expressed in terms of adjoint variables. Numerical results for both strategies are finally compared with respect to accuracy and efficiency.

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Author: S. Repke, N. Marheineke, R. Pinnau urn:nbn:de:hbz:386-kluedo-16519 Berichte des Fraunhofer-Instituts für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWM Report) (186) Report English 2010 2010 Fraunhofer-Institut für Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik Lagrange formalism; film casting process ; free surface Stokes flow ; optimal control ; thin films Fraunhofer (ITWM) 510 Mathematik

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