Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of
Science, Bangalore 560 012, India Optimization hinders evolution! ME256
Variational Methods and Structural Optimization
Jan.-May., 2015
Instructor:
G. K.
Ananthasuresh
, Room 106, ME Building,
suresh at
mecheng.iisc.ernet.in
Lectures: Tu, Th: 08:30 AM - 10:00 AM;
Venue: ME MMCR (Multimedia Classroom)
Homework #5
Assigned: Feb. 9th, 2015
Due: Feb. 17th, 2015
Points: 50 Additional points for work that is beyond instructor's expectation!
Look up Homework #1 of 2010 offering of this course and the solution posted there to know what is meant by "beyond instructor's expectation".
25 points
Use Euler's (discretized) method to derive the differential equation and boundary conditions when the functional to be minimized has y. y', and y'' in the integrand.
25 points
Write the Gateaux variation for all the functionals given below.
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