On Nitsche's Method for Elastic Contact Problems

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DOI10.1137/19M1246869zbMATH Open1447.65143arXiv1902.09312OpenAlexW3013756537MaRDI QIDQ5221024FDOQ5221024

Juha H. Videman, Rolf Stenberg, Tom Gustafsson

Publication date: 27 March 2020

Published in: SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show quasi-optimality and a posteriori error estimates for the frictionless contact problem between two elastic bodies with a zero-gap function. The analysis is based on interpreting Nitsche's method as a stabilised finite element method for which the error estimates can be obtained with minimal regularity assumptions and without the saturation assumption. We present three different Nitsche's mortaring techniques for the contact boundary each corresponding to a different stabilising term. Our numerical experiments show the robustness of Nitsche's method and corroborates the efficiency of the a posteriori error estimators.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09312





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