EAN: 9789811967306

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN MATHEMATICS VARIATIONAL APP...

This volume is devoted to the study of hyperbolic free boundary problems possessing variational
structure. Such problems can be used to model  among others  oscillatory motion of a droplet on
a surface or bouncing of an elastic body against a rigid obstacle. In the case of the droplet 
for example  the membrane surrounding the fluid in general forms a positive contact angle with
the obstacle  and therefore the second derivative is only a measure at the contact free
boundary set. We will show how to derive the mathematical problem for a few physical systems
starting from the action functional  discuss the mathematical theory  and introduce methods for
its numerical solution. The mathematical theory and numerical methods depart from the classical
approaches in that they are based on semi-discretization in time  which facilitates the
application of the modern theory of calculus of variations.

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