hemivariational en · ADJ
Etymology
From hemi- + variational.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to a generalization of variational inequalities which covers boundary value problems for partial differential equations with nonmonotone, nonconvex and possibly multivalued laws.
The variational formulation of this problem leads to hemivariational inequality with a nonsmooth functional defined on the contact boundary.
2015, Nina Ovcharova, Lothar Banz, “On the coupling of regularization techniques and the boundary element method for a hemivariational inequality modelling a delamination problem”, in arXiv: