We study general mathematical framework for variation of potential energy with respect to domain deformation. It enables rigorous derivation of the integral formulas for the energy release rate in crack problems. Applying a technique of the shape sensitivity analysis, we formulate the shape derivative of potential energy as a variational problem with a parameter. Key tools of our abstract theor...

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.

The paper is devoted to the question whether some kind of additional information makes it possible to determine the fundamental matrix of variational equations in 3 . An application concerning computation of a derivative of a scalar Poincaré mapping is given.

This paper presents the Euler–Lagrange equations for fractional variational problems with multiple integrals. The fractional Noether-type theorem for conservative and nonconservative generalized physical systems is proved. Our approach uses well-known notion of the RiemannLiouville fractional derivative.

This paper is concerned with existence results for inequality problems of type F0(u;v) + Ψ′(u;v) ≥ 0, for all v ∈ X , where X is a Banach space, F : X → R is locally Lipschitz, and Ψ : X → (−∞+∞] is proper, convex, and lower semicontinuous. Here F0 stands for the generalized directional derivative of F and Ψ′ denotes the directional derivative of Ψ. The applications we consider focus on the var...

The paper deals with shape optimization of dynamic contact problem with Coulomb friction for viscoelastic bodies. The mass nonpenetrability condition is formulated in velocities. The friction coefficient is assumed to be bounded. Using material derivative method as well as the results concerning the regularity of solution to dynamic variational inequality the directional derivative of the cost ...

Variational analysis has been recognized as a rapidly growing and fruitful area in mathematics concerning mainly the study of optimization and equilibrium problems, while also applying perturbation ideas and variational principles to a broad class of problems and situations that may be not of a variational nature. It can be viewed as a modern outgrowth of the classical calculus of variations, o...

In this paper, the groundwater flow equation is generalized using the concept of the variational order derivative. We present a numerical solution of the modified groundwater flow equation with the variational order derivative. We solve the generalized equation with the Crank-Nicholson technique. Numerical methods typically yield approximate solutions to the governing equation through the discr...

The existence of inertial manifolds for a Smoluchowski equation arising in the 2D Doi-Hess model for liquid crystalline polymers subjected to a shear flow is investigated. The presence of a non-variational drift term complicates the dynamics dramatically from the gradient case in which the it is characterized solely by the steady states. Several transformations are used in order to bring the eq...