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Variational Inequalities and Flow in Porous Media

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  1. M. Chipot

    1. Department of Mathematics, University of Nancy I, Vandoeuvre Cedex, France

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Part of the book series: Applied Mathematical Sciences (AMS, volume 52)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  3. Examples and Applications

    • M. Chipot
    Pages 10-21

  5. The Dam Problem

    • M. Chipot
    Pages 74-110

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 111-121
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About this book

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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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics, University of Nancy I, Vandoeuvre Cedex, France

    M. Chipot

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Variational Inequalities and Flow in Porous Media

  • Authors: M. Chipot

  • Series Title: Applied Mathematical Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1120-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1984

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-387-96002-9Published: 01 June 1984

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-1120-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0066-5452

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-968X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 118

  • Topics: Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

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