The relaxation method has enjoyed an intensive development during many decades and this new edition of this comprehensive text reflects in particular the main achievements in the past 20 years. Moreover, many further improvements and extensions are included, both in the direction of optimal control and optimal design as well as in numerics and applications in materials science, along with an updated treatment of the abstract parts of the theory.

Auteur

Tomá Roubiek, Charles University and Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic.

Résumé

The series is devoted to the publication of high-level monographs which cover the whole spectrum of current nonlinear analysis and applications in various fields, such as optimization, control theory, systems theory, mechanics, engineering, and other sciences. One of its main objectives is to make available to the professional community expositions of results and foundations of methods that play an important role in both the theory and applications of nonlinear analysis. Contributions which are on the borderline of nonlinear analysis and related fields and which stimulate further research at the crossroads of these areas are particularly welcome.

Editor-in-Chief
Jürgen Appell, Würzburg, Germany

Honorary and Advisory Editors
Catherine Bandle, Basel, Switzerland
Alain Bensoussan, Richardson, Texas, USA
Avner Friedman, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Umberto Mosco, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA

Editorial Board
Manuel del Pino, Bath, UK, and Santiago, Chile
Mikio Kato, Nagano, Japan
Wojciech Kryszewski, Toru, Poland
Viceniu D. Rdulescu, Kraków, Poland
Simeon Reich, Haifa, Israel

Please submit book proposals to Jürgen Appell.

Titles in planning include
Ireneo Peral Alonso and Fernando Soria, Elliptic and Parabolic Equations Involving the HardyLeray Potential (2020)
Cyril Tintarev, Profile Decompositions and Cocompactness: Functional-Analytic Theory of Concentration Compactness (2020)
Takashi Suzuki, Semilinear Elliptic Equations: Classical and Modern Theories (2021)