Special Session 35: 

Existence of solutions for coupled systems of parabolic hemivariational inequalities

Zijia Peng
Guangxi University for Nationalities
Peoples Rep of China
Co-Author(s):    Dumitru Motreanu
Abstract:
Hemivariational inequality has been widely used to nonsmooth and noncovex energy functional problems. This talk concerns an initial-boundary value problem for a quasilinear parabolic system of hemivariational inequalities which is not necessarily coercive. The system is given in inclusion forms and doubly coupled on both the source and multivalued terms. The existence of weak solutions is established within a trapping region based on sub-supersolutions and nonsmooth analysis. Moreover, we show the existence of positive solutions by effectively constructing the sub-supersolutions of the coupled system.