Error estimates for the finite element solutions of variational inequalities
An abstract theory of evolutionary variational inequalities and its applications to the traction boundary value problems of elastoplasticity are studied, using the penalty method to prove the existence of a solution.
A bifurcation problem for variational inequalities is studied, where is a closed convex cone in , , is a matrix, is a small perturbation, a real parameter. The main goal of the paper is to simplify the assumptions of the abstract results concerning the existence of a bifurcation of periodic solutions developed in the previous paper and to give examples in more than three dimensional case.
Given a C1 function H: R3 --> R, we look for H-bubbles, i.e., surfaces in R3 parametrized by the sphere S2 with mean curvature H at every regular point..