Numerical analysis of a frictional contact problem for viscoelastic materials with long-term memory

We consider a mathematical model which describes the bilateral contact between a deformable body and an obstacle. The process is quasistatic, the material is assumed to be viscoelastic with long memory and the friction is modeled with Tresca’s law. The problem has a unique weak solution. Here we study spatially semi-discrete and fully discrete schemes using finite differences and finite elements. We show the convergence of the schemes under the basic solution regularity and we derive order error estimates. Finally, we present an algorithm for the numerical realization and simulations for a two-dimensional test problem.     

Facial reduction in partially finite convex programming

We consider the problem of minimizing an extended-valued convex function on a locally convex space subject to a finite number of linear (in)equalities. When the standard constraint qualification fails a reduction technique is needed to derive necessary optimality conditions. Facial reduction is usually applied in the range of the constraints. In this paper it is applied in the domain space, thus maintaining any structure (and in particular lattice properties) of the underlying domain. Applications include constrained approximation and best entropy estimation.Research partially supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.     

Computation of high order derivatives in optimal shape design

Summary. In shape optimization problems, each computation of the cost function by the finite element method leads to an expensive analysis. The use of the second order derivative can help to reduce the number of analyses. Fujii ([4], [10]) was the first to study this problem. J. Simon [19] gave the second order derivative for the Navier-Stokes problem, and the authors describe in [8], [11], a method which gives an intrinsic expression of the first and second order derivatives on the boundary of the involved domain. In this paper we study higher order derivatives. But one can ask the following questions: -- are they expensive to calculate? -- are they complicated to use? -- are they imprecise? -- are they useless? \medskip\noindent At first sight, the answer seems to be positive, but classical results of V. Strassen [20] and J. Morgenstern [13] tell us that the higher order derivatives are not expensive to calculate, and can be computed automatically. The purpose of this paper is to give an answer to the third question by proving that the higher order derivatives of a function can be computed with the same precision as the function itself. We prove also that the derivatives so computed are equal to the derivatives of the discrete problem (see Diagram 1). We call the discrete problem the finite dimensional problem processed by the computer. This result allows the use of automatic differentiation ([5], [6]), which works only on discrete problems. Furthermore, the computations of Taylor's expansions which are proposed at the end of this paper, could be a partial answer to the last question. Received January 27, 1993/Revised version received July 20, 1993     

Smooth points in some spaces of bounded operators

We determine the smooth points of certain spaces of bounded operatorsL(X,Y), including the cases whereX andY arel ^p -orc ₀-direct sums of finite dimensional Banach spaces or subspaces of the latter enjoying the metric compact approximation property. We also remark that the operators not attaining their norm are nowhere dense inL(X,Y) wheneverK(X,Y) is anM-ideal inL(X,Y).     

Existence of minimizers for a class of quasi-convex functionals with non-standard growth

We study the lower semicontinuity properties of non-autonomous variational integrals whose energy densities satisfy general growth conditions. We apply these results to solve Dirichlet’s boundary value problems for such functionals. Received: June 14, 2000; in final form: November 25, 2000 Published online: December 19, 2001     

Generalizing Hopf and Lax-Oleînik formulae via conjugate integral

Using the second Fenchel conjugate transform the conjugate integral sums and the conjugate integral are introduced. An estimate of speed of convergence of the sums to the integral is obtained. In the case of a convex integrant the conjugate integral reduces to the Riemannian one. It is proved that the Fenchel conjugate transform of the conjugate integral with variable upper limit provides a formula for the viscosity solution to a Hamilton-Jacobi equation in which the Hamiltonian depends both on time and the gradient of the unknown function. In the autonomous case the obtained formula coincides with Hopf's one. Two examples are considered in which an application of the conjugate integral allows to find viscosity solutions explicitly. It is shown how the extension of the Lax-Oleînik formula to the nonautonomous case may be obtained using the generalized Hopf formula.This paper was prepared while the author was a Lise Meitner fellow at the Institut für Mathematik, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Austria     

一个新的凋亡抑制蛋白P49的表达及氨基酸序列分析

从海灰翅夜蛾核型多角体病毒（SpliNPV)中新发现的p49基因可抑制病毒感染引起的草地贪夜蛾细胞Sf9的凋亡，用杆状病毒表达系统Bac to Bac克隆表达并收获P49蛋白，发现所测定的表达蛋白的氨基酸序列与由核苷酸推导的氨基酸序列一致，证明p49基因经克隆转染后得到正确表达，P49蛋白上－^91TVTDG^95－氨基酸序列为Caspase识别结构，比较P35与P49蛋白，两蛋白同源性约为48．8％，且都具Caspase识别和切割的氨基酸序列。     

Contingent derivatives of set-valued maps and applications to vector optimization

In this paper we investigate contingent derivatives of set-valued maps and their lower and upper semidifferentiability properties. We provide also some calculus rules for these derivatives in infinite dimensional spaces. The concept of contingent derivatives is then applied to produce several necessary and sufficient conditions for vector optimization problems with set-valued objectives.This paper was written when the author was at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg under a grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.On leave from the Institute of Mathematics, Hanoi, Vietnam.     

Steady States of Anisotropic Generalized Newtonian Fluids

We consider the stationary flow of a generalized Newtonian fluid which is modelled by an anisotropic dissipative potential f. More precisely, we are looking for a solution of the following system of nonlinear partial differential equations

Characterization of derivations on B(X) by local actions

Let A be a unital algebra and M be a unital A-bimodule. A linear map δ : A →M is said to be Jordan derivable at a nontrivial idempotent P ∈ A if δ(A) ? B + A ? δ(B) =δ(A ? B) for any A, B ∈ A with A ? B = P, here A ? B = AB + BA is the usual Jordan product. In this article, we show that if A = Alg N is a Hilbert space nest algebra and M = B(H), or A = M = B(X), then, a linear map δ : A → M is Jordan derivable at a nontrivial projection P ∈ N or an arbitrary but fixed nontrivial idempotent P ∈ B(X) if and only if it is a derivation. New equivalent characterization of derivations on these operator algebras was obtained.