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This monograph focuses primarily on nonsmooth variational problems that arise from boundary value problems with nonsmooth data and/or nonsmooth constraints, such as is multivalued elliptic problems, variational inequalities, hemivariational inequalities, and their corresponding evolution problems. The main purpose of this book is to provide a systematic and unified exposition of comparison principles based on a suitably extended sub-supersolution method. This method is an effective and flexible technique to obtain existence and comparison results of solutions. Also, it can be employed for the investigation of various qualitative properties, such as location, multiplicity and extremality of solutions. In the treatment of the problems under consideration a wide range of methods and techniques from nonlinear and nonsmooth analysis is applied, a brief outline of which has been provided in a preliminary chapter in order to make the book self-contained. This text is an invaluable reference for researchers and graduate students in mathematics (functional analysis, partial differential equations, elasticity, applications in materials science and mechanics) as well as physicists and engineers.

Variational inequalities (Mathematics) --- Nonsmooth optimization. --- Functional analysis. --- Functional calculus --- Calculus of variations --- Functional equations --- Integral equations --- Nonsmooth analysis --- Optimization, Nonsmooth --- Mathematical optimization --- Inequalities, Variational (Mathematics) --- Differential inequalities --- Differential equations, partial. --- Mathematics. --- Functional Analysis. --- Partial Differential Equations. --- Applications of Mathematics. --- Math --- Science --- Partial differential equations --- Partial differential equations. --- Applied mathematics. --- Engineering mathematics. --- Engineering --- Engineering analysis --- Mathematical analysis --- Mathematics --- Differential equations. --- Differential Equations. --- 517.91 Differential equations --- Differential equations