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We give an informal presentation of contact problems, including those that motivated our research, with a brief discussion of the challenges arising in their numerical solution. We consider frictionless problems, problems with friction, and dynamic contact problems. The discussion includes a brief history, continuous formulation, discretization, and potentially scalable solution methods.
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Dostál, Z. (2023). Contact Problems and Their Solution. In: Scalable Algorithms for Contact Problems. Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33580-8_1
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