Finite element minimization of curvature functionals with anisotropy

DOI10.1007/BF02575878MaRDI QIDQ1817507zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors R. Goglione, F. Fierro, Maurizio Paolini

Publication date 9 February 2000

Published in Calcolo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02575878

zbMATH Keywords

anisotropyconvex approximationsfinite elementsprescribed curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems concerning minimal surfaces (problems in two independent variables) (58E12) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Review text

The paper describes a finite element minimization of the prescribed curvature functional with anisotropy via convex approximations. Discretization is done with piecewise linear elements, and the minimization procedure is based on a constraint modified Newton method. The method extends a previous version of the algorithm [\textit{G. Bellettini, M. Paolini} and \textit{C. Verdi}, Pitman Res. Notes Math. Ser. 267, 124-138 (1993; Zbl 0790.53005)] to the inhomogeneous and anisotropic general case. The paper has an appendix with numerical examples computed for certain surface energies.

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