We discuss a nonlinear beam obstacle model defined by inequality constraints and differential equations with highly nonlinear and fourth order operators. An appropriate discrete approximation by the finite element method leads to a large finite-dimensional mixed nonlinear complementarity problem. We propose an interior-point algorithm for the solution of this complementarity problem. Some compu...

We consider a quadratic programming-based method for nonlinear complementarity problems which allows inexact solutions of the quadratic subproblems. The main features of this method are that all iterates stay in the feasible set and that the method has some strong global and local convergence properties. Numerical results for all complementarity problems from the MCPLIB test problem collection ...

We consider a quadratic programming-based method for nonlinear complementarity problems which allows inexact solutions of the quadratic subproblems. The main features of this method are that all iterates stay in the feasible set and that the method has some strong global and local convergence properties. Numerical results for all complementarity problems from the MCPLIB test problem collection ...

We obtain local estimates of the distance to a set defined by equality constraints under assumptions which are weaker than those previously used in the literature. Specifically, we assume that the constraints mapping has a Lipschitzian derivative, and satisfies a certain 2-regularity condition at the point under consideration. This setting directly subsumes the classical regular case and the tw...

In this paper, we study some properties of quasiconvex nonlinear complementarity functions. However, we prove that a nonlinear complementarity function cannot be pseudoconvex. As a consequence of this, we show that every convex nonlinear complementarity function is nondifferentiable. Furthermore, some properties of homogeneous nonlinear complementarity functions are proved.