On a class of variational inequalities (Q1094661)

A new class of variational inequalities of the form \[ a(u,v-u)+b(u,v)- b(u,u)\geq (A(u),v-u)),\quad v\in M, \] is considered where \(M\subset H\) is a convex nonempty subset of a Hilbert space H, a(u,v) is a coercive and continuous bilinear form on H, b(u,v) is bounded and linear in the first variable, convex or linear in the second one and \(A: H\to H'\) is a nonlinear antimonotone and Lipschitz continuous operator. General error estimates for finite element solutions are derived and existence results are proved. Applications are made to Signorini problems with nonlocal friction.