Numerical minimization of geometrical type problems related to calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/BF02575797zbMath0733.49039MaRDI QIDQ809346

Giovanni Bellettini, Maurizio Paolini, Claudio Verdi

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Calcolo (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

discretization; regularization; \(\Gamma \) -convergence; discrete functionals; piecewise linear finite elements with numerical quadratures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

65K10: Numerical optimization and variational techniques

49Q05: Minimal surfaces and optimization

53A10: Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature

49Q20: Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

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