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In this chapter we will develop a strategy that involves reformulating a PDE in terms of a minimization problem on a function space.
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Borthwick, D. (2016). Variational Methods. In: Introduction to Partial Differential Equations. Universitext. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48936-0_11
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