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We present an a posteriori error analysis for the mixed virtual element method (mixed VEM) applied to second order elliptic equations in divergence form with mixed boundary conditions. The resulting error estimator is of residual-type. It…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-24 Andrea Cangiani , Mauricio Munar

We consider a mixed variational formulation recently proposed for the coupling of the Brinkman--Forchheimer and Darcy equations and develop the first reliable and efficient residual-based a posteriori error estimator for the 2D version of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Sergio Caucao , Paulo Zúñiga

We define and analyse a least-squares finite element method for a first-order reformulation of the obstacle problem. Moreover, we derive variational inequalities that are based on similar but non-symmetric bilinear forms. A priori error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-30 Thomas Führer

We present an extended framework for hybrid finite element approximations of self-adjoint, positive definite operators. It covers the cases of primal, mixed, and ultraweak formulations, both at the continuous and discrete levels, and gives…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Norbert Heuer

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

We derive a residual a posteriori estimator for the Kirchhoff plate bending problem. We consider the problem with a combination of clamped, simply supported and free boundary conditions subject to both distributed and concentrated (point…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-25 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

We propose a new and simpler residual based a posteriori error estimator for finite element approximation of the elliptic obstacle problem. The results in the article are two fold. Firstly, we address the influence of the inhomogeneous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-11-10 Sharat Gaddam , Thirupathi Gudi

We analyze the application to elastodynamic problems of mixed finite element methods for elasticity with weak symmetry. Our approach leads to a semidiscrete method which consists of a system of ordinary differential equations without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Jeonghun J. Lee

In this paper, new unfitted mixed finite elements are presented for elliptic interface problems with jump coefficients. Our model is based on a fictitious domain formulation with distributed Lagrange multiplier. The relevance of our…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Najwa Alshehri , Daniele Boffi , Lucia Gastaldi

The state-of-the art proof of a global inf-sup condition on mixed finite element schemes does not allow for an analysis of truly indefinite, second-order linear elliptic PDEs. This paper, therefore, first analyses a nonconforming finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-21 Carsten Carstensen , Asha K. Dond , Neela Nataraj , Amiya K. Pani

We develop an a posteriori analysis of C^0 interior penalty methods for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates. We show that a residual based error estimator originally designed for C^0 interior penalty methods for…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-21 Susanne C. Brenner , Joscha Gedicke , Li-yeng Sung , Yi Zhang

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

This work focuses on the development of a posteriori error estimates for fourth-order, elliptic, partial differential equations. In particular, we propose a novel algorithm to steer an adaptive simulation in the context of Kirchhoff plates…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-04-22 Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa , Luca Coradello

A dual hybrid Virtual Element scheme for plane linear elastic problems is presented and analysed. In particular, stability and convergence results have been established. The method, which is first order convergent, has been numerically…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Edoardo Artioli , Stefano de Miranda , Carlo Lovadina , Luca Patruno

When the obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates is discretized by a partition of unity method, the resulting discrete variational inequalities can be solved by a primal-dual active set algorithm. In this paper we develop and analyze…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Susanne C. Brenner , Christopher B. Davis , Li-yeng Sung

We propose an analysis for the stabilized finite element methods proposed in, E. Burman, Stabilized finite element methods for nonsymmetric, noncoercive, and ill-posed problems. Part I: Elliptic equations. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 35(6) 2013,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Erik Burman

We consider a saddle point formulation for a sixth order partial differential equation and its finite element approximation, for two sets of boundary conditions. We follow the Ciarlet-Raviart formulation for the biharmonic problem to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-17 Jérôme Droniou , Muhammad Ilyas , Bishnu Lamichhane , Glen E. Wheeler

In this paper we introduce and analyze the residual-based a posteriori error estimation of the partially penalized immersed finite element method for solving elliptic interface problems. The immersed finite element method can be naturally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Cuiyu He , Xu Zhang

A new finite element formulation for the Kirchhoff plate model is presented. The method is a displacement formulation with the deflection and the rotation vector as unknowns and it is based on ideas stemming from a stabilized method for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 L. Beirao da Veiga , J. Niiranen , R. Stenberg

This paper is concerned with the two--phase obstacle problem, a type of a variational free boundary problem. We recall the basic estimates of Repin and Valdman (2015) and verify them numerically on two examples in two space dimensions. A…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-06-06 Farid Bozorgnia , Jan Valdman