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The classical continuous mixed formulation of linear elasticity with pointwise symmetric stresses allows for a conforming finite element discretization with piecewise polynomials of degree at least three. Symmetric stress approximations of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Carsten Carstensen , Norbert Heuer

In this paper, we construct new finite element methods for the approximation of the equations of linear elasticity in three space dimensions that produce direct approximations to both stresses and displacements. The methods are based on a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Richard S. Falk , Ragnar Winther

Mixed dimensional partial differential equations (PDEs) are equations coupling unknown fields defined over domains of differing topological dimension. Such equations naturally arise in a wide range of scientific fields including geology,…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Cécile Daversin-Catty , Chris N. Richardson , Ada J. Ellingsrud , Marie E. Rognes

This paper is concerned with the Boundary Element simulation of elastic domains that contain thin inclusions that have elastic material properties, which are different to the domain. With thin inclusions we mean inclusions with extreme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Vincenzo Mallardo , Christian Dunser , Gernot Beer

We consider and discretize a mixed formulation for linear elasticity with weakly imposed symmetry in two and three dimensions. Whereas existing methods mainly deal with simplicial or polygonal meshes, we take advantage of isogeometric…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-20 Jeremias Arf

We construct a finite element approximation of a strain-limiting elastic model on a bounded open domain in $\mathbb{R}^d$, $d \in \{2,3\}$. The sequence of finite element approximations is shown to exhibit strong convergence to the unique…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-02 Andrea Bonito , Vivette Girault , Endre Süli

We develop and analyze a stabilization term for cut finite element approximations of an elliptic second order partial differential equation on a surface embedded in $\mathbb{R}^d$. The new stabilization term combines properly scaled normal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Mats G. Larson , Sara Zahedi

The purpose of this work is to study mortar methods for linear elasticity using standard low order finite element spaces. Based on residual stabilization, we introduce a stabilized mortar method for linear elasticity and compare it to the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-28 Tom Gustafsson , Peter Råback , Juha Videman

In this paper, we present a family of new mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity for both spatial dimensions $n=2,3$, which yields a conforming and strongly symmetric approximation for stress. Applying…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-04-26 Shihua Gong , Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

A family of mixed finite elements is proposed for solving the first order system of linear elasticity equations in any space dimension, where the stress field is approximated by symmetric finite element tensors. This family of elements has…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-04-22 Jun Hu , Hongying Man , Shangyou Zhang

We consider a mixed finite element method for approximating the solution of nearly incompressible elasticity and Stokes equations. The finite element method is based on quadrilateral and hexahedral triangulation using primal and dual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-10-23 Bishnu P. Lamichhane

We derive a mixed-dimensional 3D-1D formulation of the electrostatic equation in two domains with different dielectric constants to compute, with an affordable computational cost, the electric field and potential in the relevant case of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-07 Beatrice Crippa , Anna Scotti , Andrea Villa

This paper proposes a finite element method that couples mixed and Lagrange finite elements to efficiently capture stress concentrations in elasticity problems. The method employs conforming mixed finite elements in regions with stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Wei Chen , Jun Hu , Limin Ma , Mingyan Zhang

We propose a framework for unified analysis of mixed methods for elasticity with weakly symmetric stress. Based on a commuting diagram in the weakly symmetric elasticity complex and extending a previous stability result, stable mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Jeonghun J. Lee

We consider a mixed dimensional elliptic partial differential equation posed in a bulk domain with a large number of embedded interfaces. In particular, we study well-posedness of the problem and regularity of the solution. We also propose…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Fredrik Hellman , Axel Målqvist , Malin Mosquera

Constructing numerical models of noisy partial differential equations is very delicate. Our long term aim is to use modern dynamical systems theory to derive discretisations of dissipative stochastic partial differential equations. As a…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2007-05-23 A. J. Roberts

When modeling scientific and industrial problems, geometries are typically modeled by explicit boundary representations obtained from computer-aided design software. Unfitted (also known as embedded or immersed) finite element methods offer…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Pere A. Martorell , Santiago Badia

We construct finite element subspaces of the space of symmetric tensors with square-integrable divergence on a three-dimensional domain. These spaces can be used to approximate the stress field in the classical Hellinger--Reissner mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

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

We are interested in differential forms on mixed-dimensional geometries, in the sense of a domain containing sets of $d$-dimensional manifolds, structured hierarchically so that each $d$-dimensional manifold is contained in the boundary of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-01-10 Wietse M. Boon , Jan M. Nordbotten , Jon E. Vatne