An ultraweak formulation of the Kirchhoff-Love plate bending model and DPG approximation

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3381zbMATH Open1416.74083arXiv1805.07835OpenAlexW2963180864WikidataQ129718599 ScholiaQ129718599MaRDI QIDQ4629370FDOQ4629370

Authors: Thomas Führer, Norbert Heuer, Antti H. Niemi 

Publication date: 22 March 2019

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

Abstract: We develop and analyze an ultraweak variational formulation for a variant of the Kirchhoff-Love plate bending model. Based on this formulation, we introduce a discretization of the discontinuous Petrov-Galerkin type with optimal test functions (DPG). We prove well-posedness of the ultraweak formulation and quasi-optimal convergence of the DPG scheme. The variational formulation and its analysis require tools that control traces and jumps in $H^2$ (standard Sobolev space of scalar functions) and $H(mathrmdiv,Div)$ (symmetric tensor functions with $L_2$-components whose twice iterated divergence is in $L_2$), and their dualities. These tools are developed in two and three spatial dimensions. One specific result concerns localized traces in a dense subspace of $H(mathrmdiv,Div)$. They are essential to construct basis functions for an approximation of $H(mathrmdiv,Div)$. To illustrate the theory we construct basis functions of the lowest order and perform numerical experiments for a smooth and a singular model solution. They confirm the expected convergence behavior of the DPG method both for uniform and adaptively refined meshes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.07835

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zbMATH Keywords

well-posednessbiharmonic problemquasi-optimal convergenceoptimal test function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65) Plates (74K20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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