In [8] we have defined a viscosity solution for the gradient flow of the exterior Bernoulli free boundary problem. We prove here that the associated energy is non increasing along the flow. For this we build a discrete gradient flow in the flavour of Almgren, Taylor and Wang [2].
Pierre Cardaliaguet 
1
;
Olivier Ley 
2
1
Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France
2
Université de Tours, France
Pierre Cardaliaguet; Olivier Ley. On the energy of a flow arising in shape optimization. Interfaces and free boundaries, Tome 10 (2008) no. 2, pp. 223-243. doi: 10.4171/ifb/187
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