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  • Title: The weighted energy-dissipation principle and evolutionary Gamma-convergence for doubly nonlinear problems
  • Contributor: Liero, Matthias [Author]; Melchionna, Stefano [Author]
  • Published: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2017
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2411
  • Keywords: Doubly nonlinear evolution -- weighted-energy-dissipation principle -- evolutionary Gamma-convergence -- variational principle ; 47J35 ; 35K55 ; 58E30 ; article
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  • Description: We consider a family of doubly nonlinear evolution equations that is given by families of convex dissipation potentials, nonconvex energy functionals, and external forces parametrized by a small parameter ε. For each of these problems, we introduce the so-called weighted energy-dissipation (WED) functional, whose minimizer correspond to solutions of an elliptic-in-time regularization of the target problems with regularization parameter δ. We investigate the relation between the Γ-convergence of the WED functionals and evolutionary Γ-convergence of the associated systems. More precisely, we deal with the limits δ→0, ε→0, as well as δ+ ε→0 either in the sense of Γ-convergence of functionals or in the sense of evolutionary Γ-convergence of functional-driven evolution problems, or both. Additionally, we provide some quantitative estimates on the rate of convergence for the limit ε→0, in the case of quadratic dissipation potentials and uniformly λ-convex energy functionals. Finally, we discuss a homogenization problem as an example of application.