BAGNERINI , Patrizia

The hydrodynamics performance of submerged and surface-piercing lifting bodies is analyzed by a potential flow model based on a Vortex Lattice Method (VLM). Such a numerical scheme, widely applied in aerodynamics, is particularly suitable to model the lifting effects thanks to the vortex distribution used to discretize the boundaries of the...

We address the optimal control of level sets associated with the solution of the normal flow equation. The problem consists in finding the normal velocity to the front described by a certain level set in such a way to minimize a given cost functional. First, the considered problem is shown to admit a solution on a suitable space of functions....