The paper is about a sub-supersolution method for the prescribed mean curvature problem. We formulate the problem as a variational inequality and propose appropriate concepts of sub- and supersolutions for such inequality. Existence and enclosure results for solutions and extremal solutions between sub- and supersolutions are established.
In this paper, we derive a general theorem concerning the quasi-variational inequality problem: find x̅ ∈ C and y̅ ∈ T(x̅) such that x̅ ∈ S(x̅) and ⟨y̅,z-x̅⟩ ≥ 0, ∀ z ∈ S(x̅), where C,D are two closed convex subsets of a normed linear space X with dual X*, and and are multifunctions. In fact, we extend the above to an existence result proposed by Ricceri [12] for the case where the multifunction T is required only to satisfy some general assumption without any continuity. Under a kind of Karmardian’s...
In this paper we mathematically analyse an evolution variational inequality which formulates the double critical-state model for type-II superconductivity in 3D space and propose a finite element method to discretize the formulation. The double critical-state model originally proposed by Clem and Perez-Gonzalez is formulated as a model in 3D space which characterizes the nonlinear relation between the electric field, the electric current, the perpendicular component of the electric current...
We have given several proofs on the existence of the price equilibrium --- via variational inequality --- via degree theory and via Brouwer's theorems.
We consider a mathematical model which describes a contact between an elastic body and a foundation. The contact is frictionless with normal compliance. The goal of this paper is to study an optimal control problem which consists of leading the stress tensor as close as possible to a given target, by acting with a control on the boundary of the body. We state an optimal control problem which admits at least one solution. Next, we establish an optimality condition corresponding to a regularization...