Finite elements for symmetric tensors in three dimensions

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DOI10.1090/S0025-5718-08-02071-1zbMATH Open1285.74013arXivmath/0701503MaRDI QIDQ3576997FDOQ3576997


Authors: Douglas N. Arnold, Gerard Awanou, Ragnar Winther Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 August 2010

Published in: Mathematics of Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct finite element subspaces of the space of symmetric tensors with square-integrable divergence on a three-dimensional domain. These spaces can be used to approximate the stress field in the classical Hellinger--Reissner mixed formulation of the elasticty equations, when standard discontinous finite element spaces are used to approximate the displacement field. These finite element spaces are defined with respect to an arbitrary simplicial triangulation of the domain, and there is one for each positive value of the polynomial degree used for the displacements. For each degree, these provide a stable finite element discretization. The construction of the spaces is closely tied to discretizations of the elasticity complex, and can be viewed as the three-dimensional analogue of the triangular element family for plane elasticity previously proposed by Arnold and Winther.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0701503




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