We present a mixed finite element method for a model of the flow in a Hele-Shaw cell of 2-D fluid droplets surrounded by air driven by surface tension and actuated by an electric field. The application of interest regards a micro-fluidic device called ElectroWetting on Dielectric (EWOD). Our analysis first focuses on the time-discrete (continuous in space) problem and is presented in a mixed va...

A class of variational-hemivariational inequalities is studied in this paper. An inequality in the class involves two nonlinear operators and two nondifferentiable functionals, of which at least one is convex. An existence and uniqueness result is proved for a solution of the inequality. Continuous dependence of the solution on the data is shown. Convergence is established rigorously for finite...

Developing first order optimality conditions for two-stage stochastic mathematical programs with equilibrium constraints (SMPECs) whose second stage problem has multiple equilibria/solutions is a challenging undone work. In this paper we take this challenge by considering a general class of two-stage SMPECs whose equilibrium constraints are represented by a parametric variational inequality (wh...

We prove that any accumulation point of an elastic mode approach, applied to the optimization of a mixed P variational inequality, that approximately solves the relaxed subproblems is a C-stationary point of the problem of optimizing a parametric mixed P variational inequality. If, in addition, the accumulation point satisfies the MPCC-LICQ constraint qualification and if the solutions of the s...

We prove a strong convergence result for a sequence generated by Halpern's type iteration for approximating a common fixed point of a countable family of quasi-Lipschitzian mappings in a real Hilbert space. Consequently, we apply our results to the problem of finding a common fixed point of asymptotically nonexpansive mappings, an equilibrium problem, and a variational inequality problem for co...

Background Equilibrium is a central concept in numerous disciplines including economics, management science/operations research, and engineering. Methodologies that have been applied to the formulation , qualitative analysis, and computation of equilibria have included • systems of equations, • optimization theory, • complementarity theory, and • fixed point theory. Variational inequality theor...

In this short paper, we establish a variational expression of the Tsallis relative entropy. In addition, we derive a generalized thermodynamic inequality and a generalized Peierls-Bogoliubov inequality. Finally we give a generalized Golden-Thompson inequality.

We present some error bound results of generalized D-gap functions for nonsmooth and nonmonotone variational inequality (VI) problems. Application is given in providing a derivative-free descent method.

In this work, it is presented iterative schemes for achieving to common points of the solutions set of the system of generalized mixed equilibrium problems, solutions set of the variational inequality for an inverse-strongly monotone operator, common fixed points set of two infinite sequences of relatively nonexpansive mappings and common zero points set of two finite sequences of maximal monot...