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14 Chapter 3 Topology optimization applied to time-harmonic propagating waves<br />

3.2 Design variables and material interpolation<br />

Topology optimization is here employed to design structures for propagating waves.<br />

A domain Ω is exited by a harmonic input force and the aim is to find a distribution<br />

of air and solid material in the design domain Ωd such that the objective function<br />

Φ is optimized in the output domain Ωo. The concept is sketched in figure 3.1. The<br />

optimization problem is discrete as there should be either air or solid material in each<br />

point of the design domain. However, in order to allow for efficient gradient-based<br />

optimization the problem is formulated with continuous material properties that<br />

can take any value in between the values for air and solid material. To control the<br />

material properties a continuous material indicator field 0 ≤ ξ(r) ≤ 1 is introduced,<br />

where ξ = 0 corresponds to air and ξ = 1 to solid material. If µ describes the<br />

material parameters in the physical model, see section 2.2, introducing the design<br />

variable means that<br />

µ(ξ) =<br />

µa, ξ = 0<br />

µs, ξ = 1<br />

, (3.1)<br />

where µa represents the material values for air and µs the material values for solid<br />

material. Although ξ is continuous, the final design should be as close to discrete<br />

(ξ = 0 or ξ = 1) as possible in order to be well defined. To ease this, different interpolations<br />

functions as well as filtering and penalization methods can be employed.<br />

Here a morphology-based filter is used, as described in section 3.5, and interpolation<br />

functions, where the material parameters or their inverse are interpolated linearly<br />

between the two material phases, are employed<br />

µ(ξ) = µa + ξ(µs − µa). (3.2)<br />

This function satisfies the condition in (3.1), but does not necessarily result in a<br />

discrete optimal solution. A discrete design is referred to as a 0-1 design in the<br />

following.<br />

Figure 3.1 The concept of topology optimization applied to wave propagation problems.<br />

Air and solid material must be distributed in the design domain Ωd in order to optimize<br />

the objective function in the output domain Ωo.

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