Summary
For the Laplace equation with Signorini boundary conditions two equivalent boundary variational inequality formulations are deduced. We investigate the discretization by a boundary element Galerkin method and obtain quasi-optimal asymptotic error estimates in the underlying Sobolev spaces. An algorithm based on the decomposition-coordination method is used to solve the discretized problems. Numerical examples confirm the predicted rate of convergence.
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