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We propose a novel mixed finite-element formulation for geometrically exact (Simo--Reissner) beams that introduces the moment vector as additional independent field. The specific mixed form allows for an element-local, discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alexander Humer , Ivo Steinbrecher , Astrid Pechstein

Fourth-order differential equations play an important role in many applications in science and engineering. In this paper, we present a three-field mixed finite-element formulation for fourth-order problems, with a focus on the effective…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Patrick E. Farrell , Abdalaziz Hamdan , Scott P. MacLachlan

This work proposes a mixed finite element method for the Biot poroelasticity equations that employs the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas finite element space for the solid displacement and piecewise constants for the fluid pressure. The method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-26 Wietse M. Boon , Alessio Fumagalli , Anna Scotti

We propose mixed finite element methods for Cosserat materials that use suitable quadrature rules to eliminate the Cauchy and coupled stress variables locally. The reduced system consists of only the displacement and rotation variables.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Wietse M. Boon , Alessio Fumagalli , Jan M. Nordbotten , Ivan Yotov

We consider linear, hyperbolic systems of balance laws in several space dimensions. They possess non-trivial steady states, which result from the equilibrium between derivatives of the unknowns in different directions, and the sources.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-06 Wasilij Barsukow , Mario Ricchiuto , Davide Torlo

We consider mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity where the symmetry of the stress tensor is weakly enforced. Both an a priori and a posteriori error analysis are given for several known families of methods that are uniformly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Philip L. Lederer , Rolf Stenberg

With the development of multi-layer elastic systems in the field of engineering mechanics, the corresponding variational inequality theory and algorithm design have received more attention and research. In this study, a class of equivalent…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-09-11 Zhizhuo Zhang , Mikaël Barboteu , Xiaobing Nie , Serge Dumont , Mahmoud Abdel-Aty , Jinde Cao

In this paper, we study a mixed discontinuous Galerkin (MDG) method to solve linear elasticity problem with arbitrary order discontinuous finite element spaces in $d$-dimension ($d=2,3$). This method uses polynomials of degree $k+1$ for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Fei Wang , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

We propose two classes of mixed finite elements for linear elasticity of any order, with interior penalty for nonconforming symmetric stress approximation. One key point of our method is to introduce some appropriate nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-22 Shuonan Wu , Shihua Gong , Jinchao Xu

We present a complete analytical solution for the stress field inside a homogeneous, inside a homogeneous, linearly elastic solid sphere subjected to a concentrated normal load applied on its surface. Starting from the three-dimensional…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Yosuke Mori , Kiwamu Yoshii , Satoshi Takada

We propose an arbitrarily high-order accurate, fully well-balanced numerical method for the one-dimensional blood flow model. The developed method employs a continuous solution representation, combining conservative and primitive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-07 Yongle Liu , Wasilij Barsukow

We introduce a new mixed discontinuous/continuous Galerkin finite element for solving the 2- and 3-dimensional wave equations and equations of incompressible flow. The element, which we refer to as P1dg-P2, uses discontinuous piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-08-01 C. J. Cotter , D. A. Ham , C. C. Pain , S. Reich

The paper presents a two-dimensional geometrically nonlinear formulation of a beam element that can accommodate arbitrarily large rotations of cross sections. The formulation is based on the integrated form of equilibrium equations, which…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Milan Jirásek , Emma La Malfa Ribolla , Martin Horák

A novel mixed-hybrid method for Kirchhoff-Love shells is proposed that enables the use of classical, possibly higher-order Lagrange elements in numerical analyses. In contrast to purely displacement-based formulations that require higher…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jonas Neumeyer , Michael Wolfgang Kaiser , Thomas-Peter Fries

In this paper we propose a new mixed virtual element formulation for the numerical approximation of viscoelasticity equations with weakly imposed stress symmetry. The governing equations use the Zener model and are expressed in terms of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-23 Sarvesh Kumar , Utkarsh Rajput , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

In this paper, we develop an arbitrary-order locking-free enriched Galerkin method for the linear elasticity problem using the stress-displacement formulation in both two and three dimensions. The method is based on the mixed discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-13 Zhongshu Zhao , Hui Peng , Qilong Zhai , Qian Zhang

In this paper, we construct hybrid T-Trefftz polygonal finite elements. The displacement field within the polygon is repre- sented by the homogeneous solution to the governing differential equation, also called as the T-complete set. On the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Kalyan Bhattacharjee , Sundararajan Natarajan , Stephane Bordas

We introduce conformal mixed finite element methods for $2$D and $3$D incompressible nonlinear elasticity in terms of displacement, displacement gradient, the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor, and pressure, where finite elements for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-31 Arzhang Angoshtari

The paper develops and analyzes a higher-order unfitted finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations, which yields a strongly divergence-free velocity field up to the physical boundary. The method combines an isoparametric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Michael Neilan , Maxim Olshanskii , Henry von Wahl

The use of global displacement basis functions to solve boundary-value problems in linear elasticity is well established. No prior work uses a global stress tensor basis for such solutions. We present two such methods for solving stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-27 Sankalp Tiwari , Anindya Chatterjee