Table of contents : Several gradients....Pages 1-3 Comparison of two gradients....Pages 5-9 Continuous steepest descent in Hilbert space: Linear case....Pages 11-13 Continuous steepest descent in Hilbert space: Nonlinear case....Pages 15-31 Orthogonal projections, Adjoints and Laplacians....Pages 33-42 Introducing boundary conditions....Pages 43-52 Newton's method in the context of Sobolev gradients....Pages 53-58 Finite difference setting: the inner product case....Pages 59-68 Sobolev gradients for weak solutions: Function space case....Pages 69-73 Sobolev gradients in non-inner product spaces: Introduction....Pages 75-78 The superconductivity equations of Ginzburg-Landau....Pages 79-91 Minimal surfaces....Pages 93-106 Flow problems and non-inner product Sobolev spaces....Pages 107-114 Foliations as a guide to boundary conditions....Pages 115-123 Some related iterative methods for differential equations....Pages 125-133 A related analytic iteration method....Pages 135-138 Steepest descent for conservation equations....Pages 139-140 A sample computer code with notes....Pages 141-143