An algorithm for solving the obstacle problems

Authors:
Lian Xue;Xiao-Liang Cheng
Affiliations:
Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University, P.R. China and Zhejiang University City College Hangzhou 310028, P.R. China;-
Venue:
Computers & Mathematics with Applications
Year:
2004

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for solving the obstacle problem. We try tofind the approximated region of the contact in the obstacle problem by iteration. Numerical examples are given for the obstacle problem for a membrane and the elastic-plastic torsion problem.