A Posteriori Error Analysis via Duality Theory With Applications in

This volume provides a posteriori error analysis for mathematical idealizations in modeling boundary value problems, especially those arising in mechanical applications, and for numerical approximations of numerous nonlinear variational problems. The auth

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Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics Volume 8

Series Editors: David Y. Gao Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, U.S.A.

Ray W. Ogden University of Glasgow, U.K.

Advisory Editors:

I. Ekeland University of British Columbia, Canada K.R. Rajagopal Texas A M University, U.S.A.

T . Ratiu Ecole Polytechnique, Switzerland

W. Yang Tsinghua University, P.R. China

A POSTERIORI ERROR ANALYSIS VIA DUALITY THEORY With Applications in Modeling and Numerical Approximations

WEIMIN HAN Department of Mathematics University of Iowa Iowa City, IA 52242, U.S.A.

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Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Preface 1. PRELIMINARIES Introduction Some basic notions from functional analysis Function spaces Weak formulation of boundary value problems Best constants in some Sobolev inequalities Singularities of elliptic problems on planar nonsmooth domains An introduction of elliptic variational inequalities Finite element method, error estimates 2. ELEMENTS OF CONVEX ANALYSIS, DUALITY THEORY 2.1 Convex sets and convex functions 2.2 Hahn-Banach theorem and separation of convex sets 2.3 Continuity and differentiability 2.4 Convex optimization 2.5 Conjugate functionals 2.6 Duality theory 2.7 Applications of duality theory in a posteriori error analysis

3. A POSTERIORI ERROR ANALYSIS FOR IDEALIZATIONS IN LINEAR PROBLEMS 3.1 Coefficient idealization 3.2 Right-hand side idealization

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Boundary condition idealizations Domain idealizations Error estimates for material idealization of torsion problems Simplifications in some heat conduction problems

4. A POSTERIORI ERROR ANALYSIS FOR LINEARIZATIONS 4.1 Linearization of a nonlinear boundary value problem 4.2 Linearization of a nonlinear elasticity problem 4.3 Linearizations in heat conduction problems 4.4 Nonlinear problems with small parameters 4.5 A quasilinear problem 4.6 Laminar stationary flow of a Bingham fluid 4.7 Linearization in an