Mathematikgebäude, Raum M 614

Optimization of damage evolution is a mathematically challenging task. Due to natural assumptions, such as irreversibility of damage, the lower level, damage, problem is a variational inequality. Thus the optimization becomes an MPCC in function space. Within the talk, we will consider a damage model in discrete time, and discuss the corresponding optimization problem based on a sequence of regularized optimization problems. We will discuss convergence of these regularized problems based on new regularity results and show the computational feasibility of the resulting optimization problems.

Prof. Winnifried Wollner

TU Darmstadt