Journal
STRUCTURAL AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY OPTIMIZATION
Volume 31, Issue 6, Pages 419-429Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-005-0597-y
Keywords
structural topology optimization; level-set method; semi-Lagrange method
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In this paper, we introduce a semi-Lagrange scheme to solve the level-set equation in structural topology optimization. The level-set formulation of the problem expresses the optimization process as a solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equation. It allows for the use of shape sensitivity to derive a speed function for a descent solution. However, numerical stability condition in the explicit upwind scheme for discrete level-set equation severely restricts the time step, requiring a large number of time steps for a numerical solution. To improve the numerical efficiency, we propose to employ a semi-Lagrange scheme to solve level-set equation. Therefore, a much larger time step can be obtained and a much smaller number of time steps are required. Numerical experiments comparing the semi-Lagrange method with the classical explicit upwind scheme are presented for the problem of mean compliance optimization in two dimensions.
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