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These notes are the contents of a one semester graduate course which taught at Brown University during the academic year 1981-1982. They are mainly concerned with regularity theory for obstacle problems, and with the dam problem, which, in the rectangular case, is one of the most in teresting applications of Variational Inequalities with an obstacle. Very little background is needed to read these notes. The main re sults of functional analysis which are used here are recalled in the text. The goal of the two first chapters is to introduce the notion of Varia tional Inequality and give some applications from physical mathematics. The third chapter is concerned with a regularity theory for the obstacle problems. These problems have now invaded a large domain of applied mathematics including optimal control theory and mechanics, and a collec tion of regularity results available seems to be timely. Roughly speaking, for elliptic variational inequalities of second order we prove that the solution has as much regularity as the obstacle(s). We combine here the theory for one or two obstacles in a unified way, and one of our hopes is that the reader will enjoy the wide diversity of techniques used in this approach. The fourth chapter is concerned with the dam problem. This problem has been intensively studied during the past decade (see the books of Baiocchi-Capelo and Kinderlehrer-Stampacchia in the references). The relationship with Variational Inequalities has already been quoted above.
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Abstract Existence and Uniqueness Results for Solution of Variational Inequalities
Pages 1-9
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Examples and Applications
Pages 10-21
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The Obstacle Problems: A Regularity Theory
Pages 22-73
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The Dam Problem
Pages 74-110
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Table of contents (4 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Variational Inequalities and Flow in Porous Media
- Authors
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- Michel Chipot
- Series Title
- Applied Mathematical Sciences
- Series Volume
- 52
- Copyright
- 1984
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4612-1120-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-1120-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-0-387-96002-9
- Series ISSN
- 0066-5452
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VII, 118
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