Research interest
- variational equations and inequalities with applications to mechanics
- modeling of various problems in mechanics
- viscoelastic contact problems
- stationary and evolution hemivariational inequalities
- existence of solutions
- characteristic of solution set
- optimization and control theory
- optimal shape design
- identification and inverse problems
- evolution partial differential equations
- differential inclusions
- calculus of variations
Main topics include:
pseudomonotone operators, Clarke's subdifferential, nonconvex, locally Lipschitz and possibly discontinuous superpotentials, nonmonotone multivalued constitutive laws, nonmonotone friction problems, contact problems, optimal design and identification, termoviscoelastisity, method of calculus of variations, critical point theory for nondifferentiable maps, applications to mechanics and engineering