On some geometrical eigenvalue inverse problems involving the p-Laplacian operator

Abstract

In this paper, we deal with some shape optimization geometrical inverse spectral problems involving the first eigenvalue and eigenfunction of a p-Laplace operator, over a class of open domains with prescribed volume. We first briefly show the existence of the optimal shape design for the \(L^p\) norm of the eigenfunctions. We carried out the shape derivative calculation of this shape optimization problem using deformation of domains by vector fields. Then we propose a numerical method using lagrangian functional, Hadamard’s shape derivative and gradient method to determine the minimizers for this shape optimization problem. We investigate also numerically the problem of minimizing the first eigenvalue of the p-Laplacian-Dirichlet operator with volume-constraint on domains, using constrained and unconstrained shape optimization formulations. The resulting proposed algorithms of the optimization process are based on the inverse power algorithm (Biezuner et al. 2012) and the finite elements method performed to approximate the first eigenvalue and related eigenfunction. Numerical examples and illustrations are provided for different constrained and unconstrained shape optimization formulations and for various cost functionals to show the efficiency and practical suitability of the proposed approach.