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Disordered biopolymer gels have striking mechanical properties including strong nonlinearities. In the case of athermal gels (such as collagen-I) the nonlinearity has long been associated with a crossover from a bending dominated to a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-12 Jingchen Feng , Herbert Levine , Xiaoming Mao , Leonard M. Sander

This short note shows the superconvergence of an $H(\mathrm{grad}\,\mathrm{curl})$-nonconforming brick element very recently introduced in [17] for the quad-curl problem. The supercloseness is based on proper modifications for both the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Xinchen Zhou , Zhaoliang Meng , Hexin Niu

We study the nonlinear elastic response of a two-dimensional material to a localized boundary force, with the particular goal of understanding the differences observed between isotropic granular materials and those with hexagonal…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 B. P. Tighe , J. E. S. Socolar

A finite element framework is presented for analyzing crack-tip phenomena in transversely isotropic, strain-limiting elastic materials. Mechanical response is characterized by an algebraically nonlinear constitutive model, relating stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Saugata Ghosh , Dambaru Bhatta , S. M. Mallikarjunaiah

In this paper we apply a nonconforming rotated bilinear tetrahedral element to the Stokes problem in $\mathbb{R}^3$. We show that the element is stable in combination with a piecewise linear, continuous, approximation of the pressure. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-14 Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

In this paper, we construct two lower order mixed elements for the linear elasticity problem in the Hellinger-Reissner formulation, one for the 2D problem and one for the 3D problem, both on macro-element meshes. The discrete stress spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Yuanxun Sun

An $hp$-adaptive continuous Galerkin finite element method is developed to analyze a static anti-plane shear crack embedded in a nonlinear, strain-limiting elastic body. The geometrically linear material is described by a constitutive law…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-01 S. M. Mallikarjunaiah , Pavithra Venkatachalapthy

This paper is concerned with the analysis and implementation of robust finite element approximation methods for mixed formulations of linear elasticity problems where the elastic solid is almost incompressible. Several novel a posteriori…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-06-15 Arbaz Khan , Catherine E. Powell , David J. Silvester

This paper studies the discretization of a homogenization and dimension reduction model for the elastic deformation of microstructured thin plates proposed by Hornung, Neukamm, and Vel\v{c}i\'c in 2014. Thereby, a nonlinear bending energy…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-19 Martin Rumpf , Stefan Simon , Christoph Smoch

A finite element elasticity complex on tetrahedral meshes is devised. The $H^1$ conforming finite element is the smooth finite element developed by Neilan for the velocity field in a discrete Stokes complex. The symmetric div-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

In this paper a mixed spectral element formulation is presented for planar, linear elasticity. The degrees of freedom for the stress are integrated traction components, i.e. surface force components. As a result the tractions between…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-03-06 K. Olesen , B. Gervang , J. N. Reddy , M. Gerritsma

We continue our study on variable order Arnold-Falk-Winther elements for 2D elasticity in context of both affine and parametric curvilinear elements. We present an $h$-stability result for affine elements, and an asymptotic stability result…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-11-03 Weifeng Qiu , Leszek Demkowicz

In this note we study the convergence of monotone P1 finite element methods on unstructured meshes for fully non-linear Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations arising from stochastic optimal control problems with possibly degenerate, isotropic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-02-25 Max Jensen , Iain Smears

We introduce a nonconforming hybrid finite element method for the two-dimensional vector Laplacian, based on a primal variational principle for which conforming methods are known to be inconsistent. Consistency is ensured using penalty…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-02 Mary Barker , Shuhao Cao , Ari Stern

This article discusses the well-posedness and error analysis of the coupling of finite and boundary elements for transmission or contact problems in nonlinear elasticity. It concerns W^{1,p}-monotone Hencky materials with an unbounded…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Heiko Gimperlein , Ernst P. Stephan

In this paper we propose a nonconforming finite element method for the solution of the ill-posed elliptic Cauchy problem. We prove error estimates using continuous dependence estimates in the $L^2$-norm. The effect of perturbations in data…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Erik Burman

The uniqueness of equilibrium for a compressible, hyperelastic body subject to dead-load boundary conditions is considered. It is shown, for both the displacement and mixed problems, that there cannot be two solutions of the equilibrium…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-20 Daniel Spector , Scott J. Spector

We consider the lowest--degree nonconforming finite element methods for the approximation of elliptic problems in high dimensions. The $P_1$--nonconforming polyhedral finite element is introduced for any high dimension. Our finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-02-05 Dongwoo Sheen

Fiber-reinforced soft biological tissues are typically modeled as hyperelastic, anisotropic, and nearly incompressible materials. To enforce incompressibility a multiplicative split of the deformation gradient into a volumetric and an…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Elias Karabelas , Matthias A. F. Gsell , Gundolf Haase , Gernot Plank , Christoph M. Augustin

New low-order $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors are constructed in arbitrary dimension. The space of shape functions is defined by enriching the symmetric quadratic polynomial space with the $(d+1)$-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Yangxing Zhu