Project Title

MATHEON project C31: Numerical Minimization of Nonsmooth Energy Functionals in Multiphase Materials

This project is part of application area 'C' (Production) of the DFG Research Center Matheon.
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Project Description

In this project we consider the classical nonlinear elasticity poblem in variational form. Of particular interest is the examination of the semi-smoothness properties of typical energy densities and the corresponding effect of semi-convexification, discretization, and potential regularization.

Moreover, suitably adapted versions of generalized Newton, BFGS or bundle-type methods for the numerical solution of the semi-convexified energy minimization problem should be analyzed and implemented. Algorithmically, the goal is to cope with the limited smoothness and pointwise degeneracies while exploiting the semi-convex structure. Theoretically we are interested in local convergence results for semi-smooth Newton and BFGS-type solvers. The mesh (in)dependence behavior of these methods will be studied.

Potential new methods will find relevant applications in material science such as in case of compressible,non-Hookean materials.

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