An adaptive finite element method for the inequality-constrained Reynolds equation

DOI10.1016/J.CMA.2018.03.004zbMATH Open1440.76066arXiv1711.04274OpenAlexW2769490231WikidataQ130096862 ScholiaQ130096862MaRDI QIDQ1985495FDOQ1985495

Rolf Stenberg, Juha H. Videman, Tom Gustafsson, K. R. Rajagopal

Publication date: 7 April 2020

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a stabilized finite element method for the numerical solution of cavitation in lubrication, modeled as an inequality-constrained Reynolds equation. The cavitation model is written as a variable coefficient saddle-point problem and approximated by a residual-based stabilized method. Based on our recent results on the classical obstacle problem, we present optimal a priori estimates and derive novel a posteriori error estimators. The method is implemented as a Nitsche-type finite element technique and shown in numerical computations to be superior to the usually applied penalty methods.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04274

zbMATH Keywords

variational inequalitystabilized finite element methodReynolds equation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Lubrication theory (76D08) Finite element methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M10)

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Uses Software

• Triangle

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