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$C^0$ Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for a Kirchhoff Plate Contact Problem

Numerical Analysis 2014-10-28 v1

Abstract

Discontinuous Galerkin (DG) methods are considered for solving a plate contact problem, which is a 4th-order elliptic variational inequality of second kind. Numerous C0C^0 DG schemes for the Kirchhoff plate bending problem are extended to the variational inequality. Properties of the DG methods, such as consistency and stability, are studied, and optimal order error estimates are derived. A numerical example is presented to show the performance of the DG methods; the numerical convergence orders confirm the theoretical prediction.

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@article{arxiv.1410.6884,
  title  = {$C^0$ Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for a Kirchhoff Plate Contact Problem},
  author = {Fei Wang and Tianyi Zhang and Weimin Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.6884},
  year   = {2014}
}

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This paper was submitted to a Journal on April 10, 2014. It is under review

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