A C0 interior penalty finite element method for flexoelectricity

DOI10.1007/S10915-021-01613-WzbMATH Open1493.65233arXiv2008.12391OpenAlexW3195053257MaRDI QIDQ2050558FDOQ2050558

Authors: Jordi Ventura, D. Codony, Sonia Fernández-Méndez 

Publication date: 31 August 2021

Published in: Journal of Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We propose a $mathcal{C}^0$ Interior Penalty Method (C0-IPM) for the computational modelling of flexoelectricity, with application also to strain gradient elasticity, as a simplified case. Standard high-order $mathcal{C}^0$ finite element approximations, with nodal basis, are considered. The proposed C0-IPM formulation involves second derivatives in the interior of the elements, plus integrals on the mesh faces (sides in 2D), that impose $mathcal{C}^1$ continuity of the displacement in weak form. The formulation is stable for large enough interior penalty parameter, which can be estimated solving an eigenvalue problem. The applicability and convergence of the method is demonstrated with 2D and 3D numerical examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.12391

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zbMATH Keywords

flexoelectricitystrain gradient elasticityinterior penalty method\(C^0\) finite elements4th-order PDE

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Electro- and magnetostatics (78A30) Boundary value problems for linear higher-order PDEs (35G15) 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) Electromagnetic effects in solid mechanics (74F15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Linear elasticity with initial stresses (74B10) Finite element, Galerkin and related methods applied to problems in optics and electromagnetic theory (78M10)

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