A characterization of families of function sets described by constraints on the gradient
A class of retracts in with some applications to differential inclusion
A frictional contact problem with wear and damage for electro-viscoelastic materials
We consider a quasistatic contact problem for an electro-viscoelastic body. The contact is frictional and bilateral with a moving rigid foundation which results in the wear of the contacting surface. The damage of the material caused by elastic deformation is taken into account, its evolution is described by an inclusion of parabolic type. We present a weak formulation for the model and establish existence and uniqueness results. The proofs are based on classical results for elliptic variational...
A general existence theorem for differential inclusions in the vector valued case.
A linear extrapolation method for a general phase relaxation problem
This paper examines a linear extrapolation time-discretization of a phase relaxation model with temperature dependent convection and reaction. The model consists of a diffusion-advection PDE for temperature and an ODE with double obstacle for phase variable. Under a stability constraint, this scheme is shown to converge with optimal orders for temperature and enthalpy, and for heat flux as time-step .
A nonlinear evolution inclusion in perfect plasticity with friction.
A variational approach for a semi-linear parabolic equation with measure data
An existence result for a nonconvex variational problem via regularity
Local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers of certain integrals of the Calculus of Variations is obtained when the integrands are convex with respect to the gradient variable, but are not necessarily uniformly convex. In turn, these regularity results entail existence of minimizers of variational problems with non-homogeneous integrands nonconvex with respect to the gradient variable. The -dependence, explicitly appearing in the integrands, adds significant technical difficulties in the proof.
An existence result for a nonconvex variational problem via regularity
Local Lipschitz continuity of minimizers of certain integrals of the Calculus of Variations is obtained when the integrands are convex with respect to the gradient variable, but are not necessarily uniformly convex. In turn, these regularity results entail existence of minimizers of variational problems with non-homogeneous integrands nonconvex with respect to the gradient variable. The x-dependence, explicitly appearing in the integrands, adds significant technical difficulties in the proof.
An existence result for balance laws with multifunctions: a model from the theory of granular media
We study an example of the balance law with a multifunction source term, coming from the theory of granular media. We prove the existence of "weak entropy solutions" to this system, using the vanishing viscosity method and compensated compactness. Because of the occurrence of a multifunction we give a new definition of the weak entropy solutions.
An existence result for nonlinear evolution equations of second order
In this paper we consider a second order differential equation involving the difference of two monotone operators. Using an auxiliary equation, a priori bounds and a compactness argument we show that the differential equation has a local solution. An example is also presented in detail.
An existence theorem for an hyperbolic differential inclusion in Banach spaces
In this paper, we investigate the existence of solutions on unbounded domain to a hyperbolic differential inclusion in Banach spaces. We shall rely on a fixed point theorem due to Ma which is an extension to multivalued between locally convex topological spaces of Schaefer's theorem.
Anisotropic parabolic problems with slowly or rapidly growing terms
We consider an abstract parabolic problem in a framework of maximal monotone graphs, possibly multi-valued, with growth conditions formulated with the help of an x-dependent N-function. The main novelty of the paper consists in the lack of any growth restrictions on the N-function combined with its anisotropic character, namely we allow the dependence on all the directions of the gradient, not only on its absolute value. This leads to using the notion of modular convergence and studying in detail...
Application of a noncompactness technique to an investigation of the existence of solutions to a nonlocal multivalued Darboux problem.
Attractors of multivalued semiflows generated by differential inclusions and their approximations.