hemivariational
English
editEtymology
edithemi- + variational
Adjective
edithemivariational (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Pertaining to a generalization of variational inequalities which covers boundary value problems for partial differential equations with nonmonotone, nonconvex and possibly multivalued laws.
- 2015, Nina Ovcharova, Lothar Banz, “On the coupling of regularization techniques and the boundary element method for a hemivariational inequality modelling a delamination problem”, in arXiv[1]:
- The variational formulation of this problem leads to hemivariational inequality with a nonsmooth functional defined on the contact boundary.