Stabilized Nonconforming Mixed Finite Element Method for Linear Elasticity on Rectangular or Cubic Meshes

Stabilized Nonconforming Mixed Finite Element Method for Linear Elasticity on Rectangular or Cubic Meshes

Year:    2022

Author:    Bei Zhang, Jikun Zhao, Minghao Li, Hongru Chen

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 40 (2022), Iss. 6 : pp. 865–881

Abstract

Based on the primal mixed variational formulation, a stabilized nonconforming mixed finite element method is proposed for the linear elasticity on rectangular and cubic meshes. Two kinds of penalty terms are introduced in the stabilized mixed formulation, which are the jump penalty term for the displacement and the divergence penalty term for the stress. We use the classical nonconforming rectangular and cubic elements for the displacement and the discontinuous piecewise polynomial space for the stress, where the discrete space for stress are carefully chosen to guarantee the well-posedness of discrete formulation. The stabilized mixed method is locking-free. The optimal convergence order is derived in the $L^2$-norm for stress and in the broken $H^1$-norm and $L^2$-norm for displacement. A numerical test is carried out to verify the optimal convergence of the stabilized method.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/jcm.2103-m2020-0143

Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 40 (2022), Iss. 6 : pp. 865–881

Published online:    2022-01

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Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    17

Keywords:    Mixed finite element method Nonconforming rectangular or cubic elements Elasticity Locking-free Stabilization.

Author Details

Bei Zhang

Jikun Zhao

Minghao Li

Hongru Chen