Numerical minimization of geometrical type problems related to calculus of variations

DOI10.1007/BF02575797zbMath0733.49039OpenAlexW2053998315MaRDI QIDQ809346

Claudio Verdi, Giovanni Bellettini, Maurizio Paolini

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Calcolo (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02575797

zbMATH Keywords

discretizationregularization\(\Gamma \) -convergencediscrete functionalspiecewise linear finite elements with numerical quadratures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Minimal surfaces in differential geometry, surfaces with prescribed mean curvature (53A10) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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