A family of mixed finite elements for the biharmonic equations on triangular and tetrahedral grids

DOI10.1007/S11425-020-1883-9zbMATH Open1491.65141arXiv2010.02638OpenAlexW3194777423WikidataQ114222414 ScholiaQ114222414MaRDI QIDQ824243FDOQ824243

Authors: Jun Hu, Rui Ma, Min Zhang 

Publication date: 14 December 2021

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper introduces a new family of mixed finite elements for solving a mixed formulation of the biharmonic equations in two and three dimensions. The symmetric stress $$ is sought in the Sobolev space $$ simultaneously with the displacement $u$ in $L^2(Omega)$. Stemming from the structure of $$ conforming elements for the linear elasticity problems proposed by J. Hu and S. Zhang, the $$ conforming finite element spaces are constructed by imposing the normal continuity of $$ on the $$ conforming spaces of $P_k$ symmetric tensors. The inheritance makes the basis functions easy to compute. The discrete spaces for $u$ are composed of the piecewise $P_{k-2}$ polynomials without requiring any continuity. Such mixed finite elements are inf-sup stable on both triangular and tetrahedral grids for $kgeq3$, and the optimal order of convergence is achieved. Besides, the superconvergence and the postprocessing results are displayed. Some numerical experiments are provided to demonstrate the theoretical analysis.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02638

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zbMATH Keywords

biharmonic equationmixed finite element methodconforming finite elementsymmetric stress tensor

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) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Biharmonic, polyharmonic functions and equations, Poisson's equation in two dimensions (31A30)

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