On a numerical method for solving obstacle problems

DOI10.1016/0378-4754(94)90047-7MaRDI QIDQ1330676zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Muhammad Aslam Noor, Rafi Ahmad Ashrafi

Publication date 19 February 1995

Published in Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-4754(94)90047-7

zbMATH Keywords

coercive quadratic functionalFourier methodHilbert spaceobstacle problemsvariational inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Existence theories for problems in abstract spaces (49J27) Variational inequalities (49J40) Decomposition methods (49M27) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10)

Review text

The authors try to adapt a Fourier method for minimization of a coercive quadratic functional on a Hilbert space to solve a one-dimensional elliptic problem with an obstacle inside the one-dimensional domain. The problem in its classical formulation (see (4.1)--(4.2) in the paper) is expressed as a variational inequality (see (4.3)--(4.4)) which is eventually transformed to a linear system of equations (4.7). Nevertheless, neither of these three formulations seems to be equivalent with any other. Indeed, the classical formulation which misses the complementarity condition cannot be equivalent with the standard variational-inequality formulation. Both these formulations admit in the special case considered in the paper the trivial solution \(u=0\), which does not satisfy the third formulation (4.7), however. The paper also contains a lot of others discrepancies. As a result, the paper seems to be a bit out of usage.

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