Locking-free and gradient-robust H(div)-conforming HDG methods for linear elasticity

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Abstract: Robust discretization methods for (nearly-incompressible) linear elasticity are free of volume-locking and gradient-robust. While volume-locking is a well-known problem that can be dealt with in many different discretization approaches, the concept of gradient-robustness for linear elasticity is new. We discuss both aspects and propose novel Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods for linear elasticity. The starting point for these methods is a divergence-conforming discretization. As a consequence of its well-behaved Stokes limit the method is gradient-robust and free of volume-locking. To improve computational efficiency, we additionally consider discretizations with relaxed divergence-conformity and a modification which re-enables gradient-robustness, yielding a robust and quasi-optimal discretization also in the sense of HDG superconvergence.


In this paper, the concept of gradient-robustness for numerical methods for linear elasticity is introduced. A special class of discretizations for linear elasticity is considered: \(H(\operatorname{div})\)-conforming Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) discretizations by keeping track of the volume-locking and gradient-robustness property of the method. Two efficient variants of a divergence-conforming HDG scheme with reduced globally coupled degrees of freedom are discussed and analyzed. The importance of gradient-robustness and the computational efficiency of the proposed relaxed \(H(\operatorname{div})\)-conforming HDG method is demonstrated on a linear multi-physics thermo-elasticity problem in 2D and 3D. It was shown that the gradient-robustness against strong gradients fields in \(L^2\) leads to much more accurate schemes for nearly incompressible materials



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