Optimization method for axisymmetric problems of electric cloaking of material bodies

Inverse problems of designing spherical shells intended for cloaking material bodies in a stationary electric field are studied. By applying an optimization method, these problems are reduced to optimization ones in which the role of controls is played by components of the diagonal electrical conductivity tensor of the shell’s anisotropic material. The solvability of the direct and optimization problems is proved. A numerical algorithm based on particle swarm optimization is proposed for solving optimization problems, and numerical results are discussed.