A polynomial chaos approach to stochastic variational inequalities

نویسندگان

  • Ralf Forster
  • Ralf Kornhuber
چکیده

We consider stochastic elliptic variational inequalities of the second kind involving a bilinear form with stochastic diffusion coefficient. We prove existence and uniqueness of weak solutions, propose a stochastic Galerkin approximation of an equivalent parametric reformulation, and show equivalence to a related collocation method. Numerical experiments illustrate the efficiency of our approach and suggest similar error estimates as for linear elliptic problems. AMS classification: 65K15, 65N30, 65N35

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • J. Num. Math.

دوره 18  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2010