Conforming mixed triangular prism elements for the linear elasticity problem

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Authors Jun Hu, Rui Ma

Publication date 8 February 2019

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.07903, http://www.math.ualberta.ca/ijnam/Volume-15-2018/No-1-18/2018-01-13.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

linear elasticitymixed finite elementtriangular prism element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Abstract: We propose two families of mixed finite elements for solving the classical Hellinger-Reissner mixed problem of the linear elasticity equations in three dimensions. First, a family of conforming mixed triangular prism elements is constructed by product of elements on triangular meshes and elements in one dimension. The well-posedness is established for all elements with $kgeq1$, which are of $k+1$ order convergence for both the stress and displacement. Besides, a family of reduced stress spaces is proposed by dropping the degrees of polynomial functions associated with faces. As a result, the lowest order conforming mixed triangular prism element has 93 plus 33 degrees of freedom on each element. Second, we construct a new family of nonconforming mixed tetrahedral elements. The shape function spaces of our stress spaces are different from those of the elements in literature.

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