Isebe, DamienIvorra, Benjamín Pierre PaulAzerad, PascalMohammadi, BijanBouchette, FredericBock, Hans GeorgKostina, EkaterinaHoang, Xuan PhuRannacher, Rolf2023-06-202023-06-202008978-3-540-79408-010.1007/978-3-540-79409-7_20https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/53414In this paper, we reformulate global optimization problems in terms of boundary value problems. This allows us to introduce a new class of optimization algorithms. Indeed, many optimization methods can be seen as discretizations of initial value problems for differential equations or systems of differential equations. We apply a particular algorithm included in the former class to the shape optimization of coastal structuresengbook parthttp://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-79409-7_20#page-1http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-79409-7restricted access519.863Investigación operativa (Matemáticas)1207 Investigación Operativa