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We present stable mixed finite elements for planar linear elasticity on general quadrilateral meshes. The symmetry of the stress tensor is imposed weakly and so there are three primary variables, the stress tensor, the displacement vector…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Weifeng Qiu

In this work we develop a novel fully discrete version of the plates complex, an exact Hilbert complex relevant for the mixed formulation of fourth-order problems. The derivation of the discrete complex follows the discrete de Rham…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou

The port-Hamiltonian formulation is a powerful method for modeling and interconnecting systems of different natures. In this paper, the port-Hamiltonian formulation in tensorial form of a thick plate described by the Mindlin-Reissner model…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

The mechanical model of a thin plate with boundary control and observation is presented as a port-Hamiltonian system (pHs), both in vectorial and tensorial forms: the Kirchhoff-Love model of a plate is described by using a Stokes-Dirac…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Andrea Brugnoli , Daniel Alazard , Valérie Pommier-Budinger , Denis Matignon

We analyze a new framework for expressing finite element methods on arbitrarily many intersecting meshes: multimesh finite element methods. The multimesh finite element method, first presented in [40], enables the use of separate meshes to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-09-10 August Johansson , Mats G. Larson , Anders Logg

In this paper, we consider the Kirchhoff plate equation with delay terms on the boundary control are added (see system \eqref{p5-2.1} below). we give some instability examples of system \eqref{p5-2.1} for some choices of delays. Finally, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-21 Mohammad Akil , Haidar Badawi , Mohamed Balegh , Zayd Hajjej

We investigate a finite element discretization of an elastic bending-plate model with an effective prestrain. The model has been obtained via homogenization and dimension reduction by B\"onlein at al. (2023). Its energy functional is the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-13 Klaus Böhnlein , Stefan Neukamm , Oliver Sander

This paper focuses on the simultaneous homogenization and dimension reduction of periodic composite plates within the framework of non-linear elasticity. The composite plate in its reference (undeformed) configuration consists of a periodic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Amartya Chakrabortty , Georges Griso , Julia Orlik

One-flip stable configurations of an Ising-model on a random graph with fluctuating connectivity are examined. In order to perform the quenched average of the number of stable configurations we introduce a global order-parameter function…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Johannes Berg , Mauro Sellitto

Mixed variational formulations for the first-order system of the elastic membrane obstacle problem and the second-order system of the Kirchhoff--Love plate obstacle problem are proposed. The force exerted by the rigid obstacle is included…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-17 Thomas Führer , Francisco Fuica

We derive a hierarchy of plate theories for heterogeneous multilayers from three dimensional nonlinear elasticity by means of $\Gamma$-convergence. We allow for layers composed of different materials whose constitutive assumptions may vary…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Miguel de Benito Delgado , Bernd Schmidt

We present a novel Hybrid High-Order (HHO) discretization of fourth-order elliptic problems arising from the mechanical modeling of the bending behavior of Kirchhoff-Love plates, including the biharmonic equation as a particular case. The…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-25 Francesco Bonaldi , Daniele A. Di Pietro , Giuseppe Geymonat , Françoise Krasucki

We discuss a class of magnetic-electric fields based finite element schemes for stationary magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) systems with two types of boundary conditions. We establish a key $L^{3}$ estimate for divergence-free finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-03 Kaibo Hu , Weifeng Qiu , Ke Shi

We present a stable finite element method for incompressible nonlinear elasticity based on a four-field mixed formulation involving the displacement, displacement gradient, first Piola--Kirchhoff stress and pressure. Unlike existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

A set of curved beams and shells is geometrically implied by level sets of a scalar function over some bulk domain. The mechanical model for each structure is based on the Kirchhoff--Love theory, that is, small displacements without shear…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Jonas Neumeyer , Michael Wolfgang Kaiser , Thomas-Peter Fries

We study a non standard mixed formulation of the Poisson problem, sometimes known as dual mixed formulation. For reasons related to the equilibration of the flux, we use finite elements that are conforming in H(div) for the approximation of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-24 Fleurianne Bertrand , Daniele Boffi

A new approach is introduced for deriving a mixed variational formulation for Kirchhoff plate bending problems with mixed boundary conditions involving clamped, simply supported, and free boundary parts. Based on a regular decomposition of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Katharina Rafetseder , Walter Zulehner

For a well-posed non-selfadjoint indefinite second-order linear elliptic PDE with general coefficients $\mathbf A, \mathbf b,\gamma$ in $L^\infty$ and symmetric and uniformly positive definite coefficient matrix $\mathbf A$, this paper…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-10 C. Carstensen , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

In this contribution, a finite element scheme to impose mixed boundary conditions without introducing Lagrange multipliers is presented for hyperbolic systems described as port-Hamiltonian systems. The strategy relies on finite element…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-23 S. D. M. de Jong , A. Brugnoli , R. Rashad , Y. Zhang , S. Stramigioli

We propose some finite element schemes to solve a class of fourth-order nonlinear PDEs, which include the vector-valued Landau--Lifshitz--Baryakhtar equation, the Swift--Hohenberg equation, and various Cahn--Hilliard-type equations with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Agus L. Soenjaya , Thanh Tran