54
Free-boundary problems: formulation
where the domains
Db
D
2
,
D3 are the parts of D between 0 < x
::s:;
XF,
XC::S:;X<Xb
XF<X<XC
respectively and in (2.71c) and (2.71d),
[t]+=
t for
t~O,
[tJ+
= 0 for
t::s:;O.
The
tenn
'quasi-variational inequality' is used in
this fonnulation because
the
function z(x,
Y(x))
depends itself on the
unknown function
z.
Baiocchi (1975a) gave a derivation of (2.71) which was reproduced by
Bruch (1980). Baiocchi
(1975a,1975b), Baiocchi, Comincioli, and
Maione (1975), and Comincioli (1975) established
the
existence of maxi-
mal and minimal solutions for a range of problems, and Comincioli
(1975) and Baiocchi
(1975a) gave numerical algorithms
to
obtain approx-
imations
to
them. Uniqueness
of
the
solutions of their quasi-variational
inequalities
is
conjectured because
the
numerical experiments showed the
maximal and minimal solutions
to
be
the same (Baiocchi 1975c; Gilardi
1976; Baiocchi, Brezzi, and Comincioli 1976).
The
problem of
the
dam
with slanting inlet face §2.3.4
is
the
special
case
Xc
=
Xl
= Xe (Fig. 2.7) of (2.71) and was solved in this way by
Baiocchi
(1975a) and Comincioli (1975) who gave algorithms and numer-
ical results for
the
maximal and minimal solutions. Bruch (1980) indicated
how the quasi fonnulation can
be
reduced
to
the fonnulation given above
in §2.3.4 when
Yx(x) =
Yl/XF'
Baiocchi (1975a) showed how
the
varia-
tional inequality (2.36) for
the
simple
dam"
problem
is
regained from
the
general quasi theory when D is a rectangle.
The
dam
with vertical inlet face and horizontal base
but
slanting exit
face also presents a quasi-variational problem.
In
Baiocchi et
al.
(1976)
and Baiocchi and Magenes (1974, 1975)
the
problem is expressed as a
family of variational inequalities depending
on
two parameters q and
the
horizontal distance
to
the
intersection of
the
free surface with
the
seepage
face. Baiocchi
et
al.
(1975) solved a quasi-variational inequality for
the
dam with both
faGes
slanted
on
a horizontal base.
In
§§2.11
and
8.6 generalized fonnulations are given of problems in
arbitrary shaped dams by Brezis
et
al.
and independently by
Alt
who
constructed a general purpose algorithm.
Various aspects of steady flow in a fairly general region, leading
to
a
truncation algorithm (§6.3), were studied by Rogers (1980, pp. 333-82).
2.3.8. Arbitrary-shaped dam with
toe
drain: split-domain method
In
order
to
avoid the complexities of quasi-variational inequalities
Bruch
et
al.
(1982) proposed
to
use
the
Baiocchi transfonnation and
fonnulation only in
the
part
of
the
solution domain containing
the
free
surface, and in
the
remaining
part
of the domain
to
apply classical
methods for solving fixed boundary-value problems.
The
two regions thus
defined have
an
overlap which permits an alternating iterative numerical
scheme
to
be
adopted.
The
approach was first used by
Remar
et
al.