Remarks on Parameter Identification. I.
In compressible Neohookean elasticity one minimizes functionals which are composed by the sum of the norm of the deformation gradient and a nonlinear function of the determinant of the gradient. Non–interpenetrability of matter is then represented by additional invertibility conditions. An existence theory which includes a precise notion of invertibility and allows for cavitation was formulated by Müller and Spector in 1995. It applies, however, only if some -norm of the gradient with is controlled...
We consider a singularly perturbed elliptic equation on , , where for any . The singularly perturbed problem has corresponding limiting problems on , . Berestycki-Lions found almost necessary and sufficient conditions on nonlinearity for existence of a solution of the limiting problem. There have been endeavors to construct solutions of the singularly perturbed problem concentrating around structurally stable critical points of potential under possibly general conditions on . In...
This paper describes some recent research on parametric problems in the calculus of variations. It explains the relationship between these problems and the type of problem more usual in physics, where there is a given space of independent variables, and it gives an interpretation of the first variation formula in this context in terms of cohomology.
The instationary Stokes and Navier−Stokes equations are considered in a simultaneously space-time variational saddle point formulation, so involving both velocities u and pressure p. For the instationary Stokes problem, it is shown that the corresponding operator is a boundedly invertible linear mapping between H1 and H'2, both Hilbert spaces H1 and H2 being Cartesian products of (intersections of) Bochner spaces, or duals of those. Based on these results, the operator that corresponds to the Navier−Stokes...
We consider continuous dependence of solutions on the right hand side for a semilinear operator equation Lx = ∇G(x), where L: D(L) ⊂ Y → Y (Y a Hilbert space) is self-adjoint and positive definite and G:Y → Y is a convex functional with superquadratic growth. As applications we derive some stability results and dependence on a functional parameter for a fourth order Dirichlet problem. Applications to P.D.E. are also given.