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Mircea Sofonea is affiliated with the University of Perpignan in France and works primarily in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their research focuses extensively on topics related to Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities, Mechanical stress and fatigue analysis, and Elasticity and Material Modeling. Additional areas of study include Numerical methods in engineering, Topology Optimization in Engineering, Stability and Controllability of Differential Equations, and Optimization and Variational Analysis.

The scientist has contributed to various publication venues, with frequent appearances in Nonlinear Analysis Real World Applications, Axioms, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, arXiv (Cornell University), and Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik.

Among recent papers authored or co-authored by Mircea Sofonea are:

  • A Class of Nonlinear Inclusions and Sweeping Processes in Solid Mechanics (2021), Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
  • Convergence Results for Elliptic Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities (2020), Advances in Nonlinear Analysis
  • Tykhonov well-posedness of a viscoplastic contact problem (2020), Evolution equations and control theory
  • Tykhonov triples, well-posedness and convergence results (2021), Carpathian Journal of Mathematics
  • Optimal control of differential quasivariational inequalities with applications in contact mechanics (2020), Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mircea Sofonea include Domingo A. Tarzia, Yi-bin Xiao, Anna Ochał, Rong Hu, and Weimin Han.

Mircea Sofonea has also published books with recognized scientific publishers. Notable titles include "Well-Posed Nonlinear Problems" (2023) published by Springer Nature and "Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Applications, Monographs and Research Notes in Mathematics" (2024) published by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Best Publications

  • Quasistatic Contact Problems in Viscoelasticity and Viscoplasticity

    Weimin Han;Mircea Sofonea

  • Nonlinear Inclusions and Hemivariational Inequalities

    Stanisław Migórski;Anna Ochal;Mircea Sofonea

  • Models and analysis of quasistatic contact

    Meir Shillor;Mircea Sofonea;Józef Joachim Telega

  • Nonlinear Inclusions and Hemivariational Inequalities: Models and Analysis of Contact Problems

    Stanislaw Migrski;Anna Ochal;Mircea Sofonea

  • Mathematical Models in Contact Mechanics

    Mircea Sofonea;Andaluzia Matei

  • Analysis and Approximation of Contact Problems with Adhesion or Damage

    Mircea Sofonea;Weimin Han;Meir Shillor

  • Contact problems in elasticity

    Weimin Han;Mircea Sofonea

  • Functional and numerical methods in viscoplasticity

    Ioan R Ionescu;Mircea Sofonea

  • Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Applications

    Mircea Sofonea;Stanislaw Migorski

  • Quasistatic Viscoelastic Contact with Normal Compliance and Friction

    M. Rochdi;M. Shillor;M. Sofonea

  • Variational Inequalities with Applications: A Study of Antiplane Frictional Contact Problems

    Mircea Sofonea;Andaluzia Matei

  • A Class of Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities with Applications to Frictional Contact Problems

    Weimin Han;Stanisław Migórski;Mircea Sofonea

  • A Class of Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities in Reflexive Banach Spaces

    Stanisław Migórski;Anna Ochal;Mircea Sofonea

  • Variational and numerical analysis of a quasistatic viscoelastic contact problem with adhesion

    O. Chau;J. R. Fernández;M. Shillor;M. Sofonea

  • Dynamic frictionless contact with adhesion

    O. Chau;M. Shillor;M. Sofonea

  • Numerical analysis of hemivariational inequalities in contact mechanics

    Weimin Han;Mircea Sofonea

  • Variational and numerical analysis of a quasistatic viscoelastic problem with normal compliance, friction and damage

    Weimin Han;Meir Shillor;Mircea Sofonea

  • Evolutionary Variational Inequalities Arising in Viscoelastic Contact Problems

    Weimin Han;Mircea Sofonea

  • Numerical Analysis of Elliptic Hemivariational Inequalities

    Weimin Han;Mircea Sofonea;Mikaël Barboteu

  • History-dependent quasi-variational inequalities arising in contact mechanics

    Mircea Sofonea;Andaluzia Matei

Frequent Co-Authors

Weimin Han
Weimin Han University of Iowa
Meir Shillor
Meir Shillor Oakland University
Stanisław Migórski
Stanisław Migórski Jagiellonian University
Dumitru Motreanu
Dumitru Motreanu University of Perpignan

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