This paper synopsis a new solution for Permanent Magnets Linear Generator (PMLG) state estimation subject to bounded uncertainty. Therefore, a PMLG modeling method is presented based on an equivalent circuit, wherein a mathematical model of the generator adapted to wave energy conversion is established. Then, using the Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) optimization and a Lyapunov function, this system's Sliding Mode Observer (SMO) design method is developed. Consequently, the proposed observer can...

This paper concerns an obstacle control problem for an elastic (homogeneous) and isotropic) pseudoplate. The state problem is modelled by a coercive variational inequality, where control variable enters the coefficients of the linear operator. Here, the role of control variable is played by the thickness of the pseudoplate which need not belong to the set of continuous functions. Since in general problems of control in coefficients have no optimal solution, a class of the extended optimal control...

This review aims at presenting a synoptic, if not exhaustive, point of view on some of the problems encountered by biologists and physicians who deal with natural cell proliferation and disruptions of its physiological control in cancer disease. It also aims at suggesting how mathematicians are naturally challenged by these questions and how they might help, not only biologists to deal theoretically with biological complexity, but also physicians to optimise therapeutics, on which last point the...

Two-scale convergence is a powerful mathematical tool in periodic homogenization developed for modelling media with periodic structure. The contribution deals with the classical definition, its problems, the ``dual'' definition based on the so-called periodic unfolding. Since in the case of domains with boundary the unfolding operator introduced by D. Cioranescu, A. Damlamian, G. Griso does not satisfy the crucial integral preserving property, the contribution proposes a modified unfolding operator...

We propose a modification of the golden ratio algorithm for solving pseudomonotone equilibrium problems with a Lipschitz-type condition in Hilbert spaces. A new non-monotone stepsize rule is used in the method. Without such an additional condition, the theorem of weak convergence is proved. Furthermore, with strongly pseudomonotone condition, the $R$-linear convergence rate of the method is established. The results obtained are applied to a variational inequality problem, and the convergence rate...

We consider an Hamilton-Jacobi equation of the form$$H(x,Du)=0x\in \Omega \subset {ℝ}^N,\left(1\right)$$where $H(x,p)$ is assumed Borel measurable and quasi-convex in $p$. The notion of Monge solution, introduced by Newcomb and Su, is adapted to this setting making use of suitable metric devices. We establish the comparison principle for Monge sub and supersolution, existence and uniqueness for equation (1) coupled with Dirichlet boundary conditions, and a stability result. The relation among Monge and Lipschitz subsolutions is also discussed.

We consider an Hamilton-Jacobi equation of the form

 $$H(x,Du)=0x\in \Omega \subset {ℝ}^N,\left(1\right)$$ 
 where H(x,p) is assumed Borel measurable and quasi-convex in p. The notion of Monge solution, introduced by Newcomb and Su, is adapted to this setting making use of suitable metric devices. We establish the comparison principle for Monge sub and supersolution, existence and uniqueness for equation ([see full text]) coupled with Dirichlet boundary conditions, and a stability result. The relation among Monge and Lipschitz subsolutions is also...

We show that for every $\epsilon >0$, there is a set $A\subset {ℝ}^2$ such that ${\mathscr{H}}^1⌞A$ is a monotone measure, the corresponding tangent measures at the origin are not unique and ${\mathscr{H}}^1⌞A$ has the $1$-dimensional density between $1$ and $3+\epsilon$ everywhere on the support.

We consider the following classical autonomous variational problem$$\mathrm{minimize}\left\{F\left(v\right)={\int }_a^{b}f(v\left(x\right),v^{\text{'}}\left(x\right))x̣:v\in AC\left([a,b]\right),v\left(a\right)=\alpha ,v\left(b\right)=\beta \right\},$$where the Lagrangianf is possibly neither continuous, nor convex, nor coercive. We prove a monotonicity property of the minimizers stating that they satisfy the maximum principle or the minimum one. By virtue of such a property, applying recent results concerning constrained variational problems, we derive a relaxation theorem, the DuBois-Reymond necessary condition and some existence or non-existence criteria.

We consider the following classical autonomous variational problem$$\mathrm{minimize}\left\{F\left(v\right)={\int }_a^{b}f(v\left(x\right),v^{\text{'}}\left(x\right))x̣:v\in AC\left([a,b]\right),v\left(a\right)=\alpha ,v\left(b\right)=\beta \right\},$$ where the Lagrangian f is possibly neither continuous, nor convex, nor coercive. We prove a monotonicity property of the minimizers stating that they satisfy the maximum principle or the minimum one. By virtue of such a property, applying recent results concerning constrained variational problems, we derive a relaxation theorem, the DuBois-Reymond necessary condition and some existence or non-existence criteria.

In a recent paper [Forum Math., 2008] the authors established some global, up to the boundary of a domain Ω ⊂ ℝⁿ, continuity and Morrey regularity results for almost minimizers of functionals of the form $u\mapsto {\int }_{\Omega }g(x,u\left(x\right),\nabla u\left(x\right))dx$. The main assumptions for these results are that g is asymptotically convex and that it satisfies some growth conditions. In this article, we present a specialized but significant version of this general result. The primary purpose of this paper is provide several applications of this simplified...

We consider a mesoscopic model for phase transitions in a periodic medium and we construct multibump solutions. The rational perturbative case is dealt with by explicit asymptotics.