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Convergence analysis of penalty based numerical methods for constrained inequality problems
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Convergence analysis of penalty based numerical methods for constrained inequality problems

Weimin Han and Mircea Sofonea
Numerische Mathematik, Vol.142(4), pp.917-940
08/01/2019
DOI: 10.1007/s00211-019-01036-8
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https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.07676View
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Abstract

This paper presents a general convergence theory of penalty based numerical methods for elliptic constrained inequality problems, including variational inequalities, hemivariational inequalities, and variational-hemivariational inequalities. The constraint is relaxed by a penalty formulation and is re-stored as the penalty parameter tends to zero. The main theoretical result of the paper is the convergence of the penalty based numerical solutions to the solution of the constrained inequality problem as the mesh-size and the penalty parameter approach zero independently. The convergence of the penalty based numerical methods is first established for a general elliptic variational-hemivariational inequality with constraints, and then for hemivariational inequalities and variational inequalities as special cases. Applications to problems in contact mechanics are described.
Mathematics Mathematics, Applied Physical Sciences Science & Technology

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