A discrete variational principle for rate-independent evolution

Advances in Calculus of Variations

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 399-431

  Mielke, Alexander ^a,b   Stefanelli, Ulisse ^c  

^a WEIERSTRASS INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ANALYSIS AND STOCHASTICS   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Rate independent process; Time discretization; Variational principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 67949112197     PISSN: 18648258     EISSN: 18648266     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ACV.2008.017     Document Type: Article

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