Continuous piecewise linear finite elements for the Kirchhoff-Love plate equation

DOI10.1007/S00211-011-0429-5zbMATH Open1292.74043arXiv1503.06282OpenAlexW3122350689MaRDI QIDQ415511FDOQ415511

Authors: Karl Larsson, Mats G. Larson 

Publication date: 8 May 2012

Published in: Numerische Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A family of continuous piecewise linear finite elements for thin plate problems is presented. We use standard linear interpolation of the deflection field to reconstruct a discontinuous piecewise quadratic deflection field. This allows us to use discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Kirchhoff-Love plate equation. Three example reconstructions of quadratic functions from linear interpolation triangles are presented: a reconstruction using Morley basis functions, a fully quadratic reconstruction, and a more general least squares approach to a fully quadratic reconstruction. The Morley reconstruction is shown to be equivalent to the Basic Plate Triangle. Given a condition on the reconstruction operator, a priori error estimates are proved in energy norm and $L^2$ norm. Numerical results indicate that the Morley reconstruction/Basic Plate Triangle does not converge on unstructured meshes while the fully quadratic reconstruction show optimal convergence.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.06282

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zbMATH Keywords

discontinuous Galerkin methodsMorley reconstruction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Plates (74K20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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