Implicit parametrizations in shape optimization: boundary observation

Abstract: We present first a brief review of the existing literature on shape optimization, stressing the recent use of Hamiltonian systems in topology optimization. In the second section, we collect some preliminaries on the implicit parametrization theorem, especially in dimension two, which is a case of interest in shape optimization. The formulation of the problem is also discussed. The approximation via penalization and its differentiability properties are analyzed in Section 3. Next, we investigate the discretization process in Section 4. The last section is devoted to numerical experiments.