The Penalty-Free Nitsche Method and Nonconforming Finite Elements for the Signorini Problem

DOI10.1137/16M107846XzbMath1457.65183arXiv1609.03745MaRDI QIDQ4591213

Erik Burman, Mats G. Larson, Peter Hansbo

Publication date: 13 November 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03745

zbMATH Keywords

Signorini problemfinite elementcontactNitsche's method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74)

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Uses Software

• FreeFem++

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