Optimal control of the obstacle for an elliptic variational inequality

Applied Mathematics and Optimization

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 121-140

  Adams, D R ^a   Lenhart, S M ^b   Yong, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Approximation; Green potentials; Obstacle problem

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ELLIPTIC OBSTACLE VARIATIONAL INEQUALITY;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032167354     PISSN: 00954616     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002459900085     Document Type: Article

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