Second order splitting for a class of fourth order equations

DOI10.1090/MCOM/3425MaRDI QIDQ5226654zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Charles M. Elliott, Hans Fritz, Graham Hobbs

Publication date 1 August 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04151

zbMATH Keywords

biomembranesfourth-order elliptic partial differential equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods for higher-order elliptic equations (35J35) Numerical solutions to equations with linear operators (65J10) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Biomechanical solid mechanics (74L15)

Abstract: We formulate a well-posedness and approximation theory for a class of generalised saddle point problems. In this way we develop an approach to a class of fourth order elliptic partial differential equations using the idea of splitting into coupled second order equations. Our main motivation is to treat certain fourth order surface equations arising in the modelling of biomembranes but the approach may be applied more generally. In particular, we are interested in equations with non-smooth right hand sides and operators which have non-trivial kernels.The theory for well posedness and approximation is presented in an abstract setting. Several examples are described together with some numerical experiments.

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• DUNE-FEM

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