Shape οptimizatiοn and applicatiοns tο hydraulic structures : mathematical analysis and numerical apprοximatiοn

We are interested in the theoretical and numerical study of different flow models (shallow water system, multilayer, stationary and non stationary porous media) and their applications to the shape optimization of some hydraulic structures.We explore the well-posedness of the models and derive the adjoint equations related to each system.A penalty method is used to relax the incompressibility constraint for the velocity. We express the shape gradient of the cost function in terms of the velocity value as a state variable, the adjoint variables and the unit normal vector to the boundary of the domain.We propose a discrete finite element method to approximate the solution for the penalizedproblem and establish a priori estimates to prove the convergence of the approximate solution to the solution of the non perturbed problem. Error estimates for the velocity and the pressure are established.The optimization procedure is implemented using the continuous adjoint method and the finite element method.