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A Sobolev gradient of a real-valued functional on a Hilbert space is a gradient of that functional taken relative to an underlying Sobolev norm. This book shows how descent methods using such gradients allow a unified treatment of a wide variety of problems in differential equations. For discrete versions of partial differential equations, corresponding Sobolev gradients are seen to be vastly more efficient than ordinary gradients. In fact, descent methods with these gradients generally scale linearly with the number of grid points, in sharp contrast with the use of ordinary gradients. Aside from the first edition of this work, this is the only known account of Sobolev gradients in book form.
Most of the applications in this book have emerged since the first edition was published some twelve years ago. What remains of the first edition has been extensively revised. There are a number of plots of results from calculations and a sample MatLab code is included for a simple problem. Those working through a fair portion of the material have in the past been able to use the theory on their own applications and also gain an appreciation of the possibility of a rather comprehensive point of view on the subject of partial differential equations.
| Several Gradients | p. 1 |
| Comparison of Two Gradients | p. 5 |
| A Graphical Comparison Between two Gradients | p. 11 |
| Continuous Steepest Descent in Hilbert Space: Linear Case | p. 15 |
| Continuous Steepest Descent in Hilbert Space: Nonlinear Case | p. 19 |
| Global Existence | p. 19 |
| Gradient Inequality | p. 21 |
| Work of Chill and Huang on Gradient Inequalities | p. 30 |
| Higher Order Sobolev Spaces for Lower Order Problems | p. 31 |
| Orthogonal Projections, Adjoints and Laplacians | p. 35 |
| A Construction of a Sobolev Space | p. 35 |
| A Formula of von Neumann | p. 38 |
| Relationship Between Adjoints | p. 39 |
| General Laplacians | p. 40 |
| Extension of Projections Beyond Hilbert Spaces | p. 45 |
| A Generalized Lax-Milgram Theorem | p. 46 |
| Laplacians and Closed Linear Transformations | p. 48 |
| Projections for Higher Order Sobolev Spaces | p. 51 |
| Ordinary Differential Equations and Sobolev Gradients | p. 53 |
| Convexity and Gradient Inequalities | p. 57 |
| Boundary and Supplementary Conditions | p. 63 |
| Introduction | p. 63 |
| Orthogonal Projection onto a Null Space | p. 65 |
| Projected Sobolev Gradients, Linear Case | p. 65 |
| Projected Gradients, Nonlinear Case | p. 66 |
| Explicit Form for a Projected Gradient | p. 66 |
| Continuous vs Discrete Steepest Descent | p. 69 |
| A Finite Dimensional Example for Adjoints | p. 70 |
| Approximation of Projected Gradients | p. 73 |
| An Example with Mixed Boundary Conditions | p. 76 |
| Continuous Newton's Method | p. 79 |
| Riemannian Metrics and a Nash-Moser Inverse Function Result | p. 79 |
| Newton's Method from Optimization | p. 82 |
| More About Finite Differences | p. 85 |
| Finite Differences and Sobolev Gradients | p. 85 |
| Supplementary Conditions Again | p. 88 |
| Graphs and Sobolev Gradients | p. 90 |
| Digression on Adjoints of Difference Operators | p. 92 |
| A First Order Partial Differential Equation | p. 92 |
| A Second Order Partial Differential Equation | p. 95 |
| Sobolev Gradients for Variational Problems | p. 99 |
| Minimizing Sequences | p. 99 |
| Euler-Lagrange Equations | p. 100 |
| Sobolev Gradient Approach | p. 100 |
| An Introduction to Sobolev Gradients in Non-Inner Product Spaces | p. 103 |
| Singularities and a Simple Ginzburg-Landau Functional | p. 109 |
| The Superconductivity Equations of Ginzburg-Landau | p. 113 |
| Introduction | p. 113 |
| A GL Functional and Its Sobolev Gradient | p. 113 |
| Finite Dimensional Emulation | p. 116 |
| Numerical Results | p. 117 |
| Tricomi Equation: A Case Study | p. 123 |
| Numerical Simulation for Tricomi's Equation | p. 125 |
| Experimenting With Boundary Conditions | p. 125 |
| Minimal Surfaces | p. 129 |
| Introduction | p. 129 |
| Minimum Curve Length | p. 129 |
| Minimal Surfaces | p. 132 |
| Uniformly Parameterized Surfaces | p. 136 |
| Numerical Methods and Test Results | p. 140 |
| Conclusion | p. 145 |
| Flow Problems and Non-Inner Product Sobolev Spaces | p. 147 |
| Full Potential Equation | p. 147 |
| Other Codes for Transonic Flow | p. 150 |
| Transonic Flow Plots | p. 151 |
| An Alternate Approach to Time-Dependent PDEs | p. 153 |
| Introduction | p. 153 |
| Least Squares Method | p. 155 |
| Numerical Results | p. 156 |
| Foliations and Supplementary Conditions I | p. 159 |
| A Foliation Theorem | p. 159 |
| A Linear Example | p. 168 |
| Foliations and Supplementary Conditions II | p. 171 |
| Semigroups on a Metric Space | p. 171 |
| Application: Supplementary Condition Problem | p. 172 |
| Computational Fantasy | p. 174 |
| Some Related Iterative Methods for Differential Equations | p. 177 |
| An Analytic Iteration Method | p. 187 |
| Steepest Descent for Conservation Equations | p. 193 |
| Code for an Ordinary Differential Equation | p. 195 |
| Geometric Curve Modeling with Sobolev Gradients | p. 199 |
| Introduction | p. 199 |
| Minimum Curve-Length | p. 200 |
| Discrete Minimum-Length Curves | p. 204 |
| Test Results | p. 207 |
| Numerical Differentiation, Sobolev Gradients | p. 209 |
| Introduction | p. 209 |
| The Functional H(q) | p. 212 |
| Stability | p. 216 |
| Steepest Descent Minimization | p. 217 |
| Some Numerical Examples | p. 219 |
| Related Inverse Problems | p. 221 |
| Steepest Descent and Newton's Method and Elliptic PDE | p. 225 |
| Introduction | p. 225 |
| The Variational Formulation for PDE and PdE | p. 226 |
| Algorithms | p. 230 |
| The MPA and MMPA | p. 231 |
| The GNGA | p. 232 |
| Tangent-Augmented Newton's Method (tGNGA) | p. 233 |
| The Secant Method | p. 233 |
| Cylinder-Augmented Newton's Method (cGNGA) | p. 234 |
| Some PDE and PdE Results | p. 235 |
| Ginzburg-Landau Separation Problems | p. 239 |
| Introduction | p. 239 |
| Model A | p. 240 |
| Weighted Gradients | p. 241 |
| Model A' | p. 241 |
| A Phase Separation Problem | p. 242 |
| An Elasticity Problem | p. 243 |
| Numerical Preconditioning Methods for Elliptic PDEs | p. 245 |
| Introduction | p. 245 |
| The Model Problem | p. 246 |
| Condition Numbers of Nonlinear Operators | p. 247 |
| Fixed Preconditioners: Sobolev Gradients with Fixed Inner Product | p. 248 |
| Sobolev Gradients and Laplacian Preconditioners | p. 249 |
| General Preconditioners as Weighted Sobolev Gradients | p. 251 |
| Variable Preconditioners: Sobolev Gradients with Variable Inner Product | p. 252 |
| Quasi-Newton Methods as Variable Steepest Descent | p. 252 |
| Newton's Method as an Optimal Variable Steepest Descent | p. 254 |
| Mixed Problems and Other Extensions | p. 256 |
| More Results on Sobolev Gradient Problems | p. 259 |
| Singular Boundary Value Problems | p. 259 |
| Quantum Mechanical Calculations | p. 260 |
| Dual Steepest Descent | p. 261 |
| Optimal Embedding Constants for Sobolev Spaces | p. 262 |
| Performance of Preconditioners and H-1 Methods | p. 262 |
| Poisson-Boltzmann Equation | p. 263 |
| Time Independent Navier-Stokes | p. 263 |
| Steepest Descent and Hyperbolic Monge-Ampere Equations | p. 264 |
| Application to Differential Algebraic Equations | p. 265 |
| Control Theory and PDE | p. 266 |
| An Elasticity Problem | p. 267 |
| A Liquid Crystal Problem | p. 267 |
| Applications to Functional Differential Equations | p. 268 |
| More About Active Contours | p. 269 |
| Another Solution Giving Nonlinear Projection | p. 270 |
| Dynamics of Steepest Descent | p. 271 |
| Aubry-Mather Theory and a Comparison Principle for a Sobolev Gradient Descent | p. 271 |
| Notes and Suggestions for Future Work | p. 273 |
| References | p. 277 |
| Index | p. 287 |
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ISBN: 9783642040405
ISBN-10: 3642040403
Series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Published: 1st December 2009
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 312
Audience: General Adult
Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
Country of Publication: DE
Edition Number: 2
Edition Type: Revised
Dimensions (cm): 22.23 x 15.24 x 1.91
Weight (kg): 0.44
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