A design of an optimal shape of domain described by NURBS curves using the topological derivative and boundary element method

The aim of this paper is to create an optimal shape of the 2D domain that is described by the Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS) curves. This work presents a method based on the topological derivative for the Laplace equation that determines the sensitivity of a given cost function to the change of its topology. As a numerical approach, the boundary element method is considered. To check the effectiveness of the proposed approach, the example of computations was carried out.