Nonlocal variational problems arising in long wave propagation
Nonlocal variational problems arising in long wave propagatioN
In this paper we study the existence of minimizer for certain constrained variational problems given by functionals with nonlocal terms. This type of functionals are first integrals of evolution equations describing long wave propagation and the existence of minimizer gives the existence and the stability of traveling waves for these equations. Due to loss of compactness, the major problem is to prevent dichotomy of minimizing sequences. Our approach is an alternative to the concentration-compactness...
Nonoccurrence of the Lavrentiev phenomenon for nonconvex variational problems
Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Probability Density via Mathematical Programming.
Nonsmooth analysis and optimization on partially ordered vector spaces.
Nonsmooth equations approach to a constrained minimax problem
An equivalent model of nonsmooth equations for a constrained minimax problem is derived by using a KKT optimality condition. The Newton method is applied to solving this system of nonsmooth equations. To perform the Newton method, the computation of an element of the -differential for the corresponding function is developed.
Nonsmooth optimal design problems for the Kirchhoff plate with unilateral conditions
Nonsmooth Problems of Calculus of Variations via Codifferentiation
In this paper multidimensional nonsmooth, nonconvex problems of the calculus of variations with codifferentiable integrand are studied. Special classes of codifferentiable functions, that play an important role in the calculus of variations, are introduced and studied. The codifferentiability of the main functional of the calculus of variations is derived. Necessary conditions for the extremum of a codifferentiable function on a closed convex set and its applications to the nonsmooth problems of...
Non-smooth variational bifurcation
We consider bifurcation problems associated with some lower semicontinuous functionals that do not satisfy the usual regularity assumptions. For such functionals it is possible to define a generalized "Hessian form" and to show that certain eigenvalues of this one are bifurcation values. The results are applied to a bifurcation problem for elliptic variational inequalities.
Non-uniform integrability and generalized Young measures.
Note on nonlinear semigroups and free boundary problem for controlled Markov processes
Null controllability of the heat equation with boundary Fourier conditions: the linear case
In this paper, we prove the global null controllability of the linear heat equation completed with linear Fourier boundary conditions of the form . We consider distributed controls with support in a small set and nonregular coefficients . For the proof of null controllability, a crucial tool will be a new Carleman estimate for the weak solutions of the classical heat equation with nonhomogeneous Neumann boundary conditions.
Numerical analysis for optimal shape design in elliptic boundary value problems
Shape optimization problems are optimal design problems in which the shape of the boundary plays the role of a design, i.e. the unknown part of the problem. Such problems arise in structural mechanics, acoustics, electrostatics, fluid flow and other areas of engineering and applied science. The mathematical theory of such kind of problems has been developed during the last twelve years. Recently the theory has been extended to cover also situations in which the behaviour of the system is governed...
Numerical analysis of oscillations in nonconvex problems.
Numerical approaches to rate-independent processes and applications in inelasticity
A conceptual numerical strategy for rate-independent processes in the energetic formulation is proposed and its convergence is proved under various rather mild data qualifications. The novelty is that we obtain convergence of subsequences of space-time discretizations even in case where the limit problem does not have a unique solution and we need no additional assumptions on higher regularity of the limit solution. The variety of general perspectives thus obtained is illustrated on several...
Numerical approximation of relaxed variational problems.
Numerical identification of a coefficient in a parabolic quasilinear equation
In the article the following optimal control problem is studied: to determine a certain coefficient in a quasilinear partial differential equation of parabolic type so that the solution of a boundary value problem for this equation would minimise a given integral functional. In addition to the design and analysis of a numerical method the paper contains the solution of the fundamental problems connected with the formulation of the problem in question (existence and uniqueness of the solution of...
Numerical methods for solving variational inequalities
Numerical procedure to approximate a singular optimal control problem
In this work we deal with the numerical solution of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation with infinitely many solutions. To compute the maximal solution – the optimal cost of the original optimal control problem – we present a complete discrete method based on the use of some finite elements and penalization techniques.
Numerical realization of a fictitious domain approach used in shape optimization. Part I: Distributed controls
We deal with practical aspects of an approach to the numerical realization of optimal shape design problems, which is based on a combination of the fictitious domain method with the optimal control approach. Introducing a new control variable in the right-hand side of the state problem, the original problem is transformed into a new one, where all the calculations are performed on a fixed domain. Some model examples are presented.