Long-time behavior of shape design solutions for the Navier-Stokes equations

We investigate the behavior of dynamic shape design problems for fluid flow at large time horizon. In particular, we shall compare the shape solutions of a dynamic shape optimization problem with that of a stationary problem and show that the solution of the former approaches a neighborhood of that of the latter. The convergence of domains is based on the L-infinity-topology of their corresponding characteristic functions, which is closed under the set of domains satisfying the cone property. As a consequence, we show that the asymptotic convergence of shape solutions for parabolic/elliptic problems is a particular case of our analysis. Last, a numerical example is provided to show the occurrence of the convergence of shape design solutions of time-dependent problems with different values of the terminal time T to a shape design solution of the stationary problem.