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Asymptotics of an optimal compliance-location problem

Giuseppe Buttazzo, Filippo Santambrogio, Nicolas Varchon (2006)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

We consider the problem of placing a Dirichlet region made by n small balls of given radius in a given domain subject to a force f in order to minimize the compliance of the configuration. Then we let n tend to infinity and look for the Γ-limit of suitably scaled functionals, in order to get informations on the asymptotical distribution of the centres of the balls. This problem is both linked to optimal location and shape optimization problems.

Atomistic to Continuum limits for computational materials science

Xavier Blanc, Claude Le Bris, Pierre-Louis Lions (2007)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

The present article is an overview of some mathematical results, which provide elements of rigorous basis for some multiscale computations in materials science. The emphasis is laid upon atomistic to continuum limits for crystalline materials. Various mathematical approaches are addressed. The setting is stationary. The relation to existing techniques used in the engineering literature is investigated.

Aubry sets and the differentiability of the minimal average action in codimension one

Ugo Bessi (2009)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

Let (x,u,∇u) be a Lagrangian periodic of period 1 in x1,...,xn,u. We shall study the non self intersecting functions u: Rn R minimizing ; non self intersecting means that, if u(x0 + k) + j = u(x0) for some x0∈Rn and (k , j) ∈Zn × Z, then u(x) = u(x + k) + j x. Moser has shown that each of these functions is at finite distance from a plane u = ρ · x and thus has an average slope ρ; moreover, Senn has proven that it is possible to define the average action of u, which is usually called β ( ρ ) since...

Augmented Lagrangian methods for variational inequality problems

Alfredo N. Iusem, Mostafa Nasri (2010)

RAIRO - Operations Research

We introduce augmented Lagrangian methods for solving finite dimensional variational inequality problems whose feasible sets are defined by convex inequalities, generalizing the proximal augmented Lagrangian method for constrained optimization. At each iteration, primal variables are updated by solving an unconstrained variational inequality problem, and then dual variables are updated through a closed formula. A full convergence analysis is provided, allowing for inexact solution of the subproblems. ...

Autovalori di alcune disequazioni variazionali con vincoli puntati sulle derivate

Claudio Saccon (1993)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

Si studiano problemi di autovalori per disequazioni variazionali semilineari ellittiche con un ostacolo puntuale sulla derivata prima della funzione incognita. Si mette in particolare in evidenza il ruolo della «ipotesi di non tangenza» tra il convesso, che viene definito dalla condizione di ostacolo, e la sfera dello spazio funzionale, su cui è naturale studiare un problema di autovalori. Tale condizione viene analizzata in alcuni casi concreti e si indicano alcune ipotesi che, garantendone la...

Barriers for a class of geometric evolution problems

Giovanni Bellettini, Matteo Novaga (1997)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

We present some general results on minimal barriers in the sense of De Giorgi for geometric evolution problems. We also compare minimal barriers with viscosity solutions for fully nonlinear geometric problems of the form u t + F t , x , u , 2 u = 0 . If F is not degenerate elliptic, it turns out that we obtain the same minimal barriers if we replace F with F + , which is defined as the smallest degenerate elliptic function above F .

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