Optimal Partitions for Eigenvalues

  • Authors:
  • Blaise Bourdin;Dorin Bucur;Édouard Oudet

  • Affiliations:
  • bourdin@lsu.edu;dorin.bucur@univ-savoie.fr and edouard.oudet@univ-savoie.fr;-

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce a new numerical method for approximating partitions of a domain minimizing the sum of Dirichlet-Laplacian eigenvalues of any order. First we prove the equivalence of the original problem and a relaxed formulation based on measures. Using this result, we build a numerical algorithm to approximate optimal configurations. We describe numerical experiments aimed at studying the asymptotic behavior of optimal partitions with large numbers of cells.