Variational Convergence of Discrete Elasticae

DOI10.1093/IMANUM/DRAA084MaRDI QIDQ6312150arXivFDO

Authors Sebastian Scholtes, Henrik Schumacher, M. Wardetzky

Publication date 8 January 2019

Published in arXiv

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/IMANUM/DRAA084

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical analysis (65-XX)

arXiv classification

math.NA

Abstract: We discuss a discretization by polygonal lines of the Euler-Bernoulli bending energy and of Euler elasticae under clamped boundary conditions. We show Hausdorff convergence of the set of almost minimizers of the discrete bending energy to the set of smooth Euler elasticae under mesh refinement in (i) the $W^{1,infty}$-topology for piecewise-linear interpolation and in (ii) the $W^{2,p}$-topology, $pin[2,infty[$, using a suitable smoothing operator to create $W^{2,p}$-curves from polygons.

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