This volume is an excellent guide for anyone interested in variational analysis, optimization, and PDEs. It offers a detailed presentation of the most important tools in variational analysis as well as applications to problems in geometry, mechanics, elasticity, and computer vision. Among the new elements in this second edition: coverage of quasi-open sets and quasi-continuity; an increased num...

Iterative substructuring methods with Lagrange multipliers for elliptic problems are considered. The algorithms belong to the family of dual-primal FETI methods which were introduced for linear elasticity problems in the plane by Farhat et al. [2001] and were later extended to three dimensional elasticity problems by Farhat et al. [2000]. Recently, the family of algorithms for scalar diffusion ...

This paper is concerned with the numerical simulation of the interaction of compressible viscous flow with elastic structures. The flow is described by the compressible Navier-Stokes equations written in the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) form. For the elastic deformation we use 2D linear elasticity and nonlinear St. Venant-Kirchhoff and neo-Hookean models. The discretization of both flow ...

A review on mathematical elasticity of quasicrystals is given. In this review, the focus is on various defects of quasicrystals. Dislocation and crack are two classes of typical topological defects, while their existence has great influence on the mechanical behavior of quasicrystals. The analytic and numerical solutions of dislocations and crack in quasicrystals are the core of the static and ...

In this paper we propose the weighted energy method as a way to study estimates of solutions of boundary-value problems with non-homogeneous boundary conditions in elasticity. First, we use this method to study spatial decay estimates in twodimensional elasticity when we consider non-homogeneous boundary conditions on the boundary. Some comments in the case of harmonic vibrations are considered...

We consider the following special problem related to the optimal layout problems of materials: Given two elastic materials, C 1 and C 2 the corresponding elasticity tensors, and a force ~ f, nd the strong closure of strains and stresses as the distribution of the materials varies or, alternatively, nd the sets of elasticity tensors which generate these strong closures. In this paper, it is show...

In the present paper, applicability of the modified fixed grid finite element method in solution of three dimensional elasticity problems of functionally graded materials is investigated. In the non-boundary-fitted meshes, the elements are not conforming to the domain boundaries and the boundary nodes which are used in the traditional finite element method for the application of boundary condit...

dynamic analysis of two-dimensional elasticity problems using the isogeometric analysis method and its comparison with the finite element method is the subject of this research. for this purpose, formulation of the governing differential equation is obtained by using the b-spline basis functions. some numerical examples employing consistent and lumped mass matrices are presented in order to com...

The basic boundary-contact oscillation problems are considered for a three-dimensional piecewise-homogeneous isotropic elastic medium bounded by several closed surfaces. Using Carleman’s method, the asymptotic formulas for the distribution of eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are obtained. 1. After the remarkable papers of T. Carleman [1–2] the method based on the asymptotic investigation of the r...