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We survey the Nitsche's master-slave finite element method for elastic contact problems analysed in [2]. The main steps of the error analysis are recalled and numerical benchmark computations are presented.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-12-19 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

We demonstrate the ability of a stabilized finite element method, inspired by the weighted Nitsche approach, to alleviate spurious traction oscillations at interlaminar interfaces in multi-ply multi-directional composite laminates. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Gourab Ghosh , Ravindra Duddu , Chandrasekhar Annavarapu

This work proposes a nonlinear finite element method whose nodal values preserve bounds known for the exact solution. The discrete problem involves a nonlinear projection operator mapping arbitrary nodal values into bound-preserving ones…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-04 Gabriel Barrenechea , Emmanuil Georgoulis , Tristan Pryer , Andreas Veeser

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 a finite element method for the Laplace-Beltrami operator on a surface with boundary and nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions. The method is based on a triangulation of the surface and the boundary conditions are enforced…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-02-05 E. Burman , P. Hansbo , M. G. Larson , K. Larsson , A. Massing

In the framework of virtual element discretizazions, we address the problem of imposing non homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions in a weak form, both on polygonal/polyhedral domains and on two/three dimensional domains with curved…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-04-05 Silvia Bertoluzza , Micol Pennacchio , Daniele Prada

We study a fictitious domain approach with Lagrange multipliers to discretize Stokes equations on a mesh that does not fit the boundaries. A mixed finite element method is used for fluid flow. Several stabilization terms are added to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Michel Fournié , Alexei Lozinski

We present a tailored multigrid method for linear problems stemming from a Nitsche-based extended finite element method (XFEM). Our multigrid method is robust with respect to highly varying coefficients and the number of interfaces in a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-05 Hardik Kothari , Rolf Krause

We derive a priori error estimates for Nitsche's method applied to elliptic problems on approximate domains. Such approximations arise, for example, in unfitted finite element methods, data-driven simulations, and evolving domain problems,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Mats G. Larson , Karl Larsson , Shantiram Mahata

We consider a vector-Laplace problem posed on a 2D surface embedded in a 3D domain, which results from the modeling of surface fluids based on exterior Cartesian differential operators. The main topic of this paper is the development and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-05 Sven Groß , Thomas Jankuhn , Maxim A. Olshanskii , Arnold Reusken

In this paper, we study the stability of the nonsymmetric version of Nitsche's method without penalty for compressible and incompressible elasticity. For the compressible case we prove the convergence of the error in the $H^1$- and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-28 Thomas Boiveau , Erik Burman

A high order cut finite element method is formulated for solving the elastic wave equation. Both a single domain problem and an interface problem are treated. The boundary or interface are allowed to cut through the background mesh. To…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Simon Sticko , Gustav Ludvigsson , Gunilla Kreiss

We consider within a finite element approach the usage of different adaptively refined meshes for different variables in systems of nonlinear, time-depended PDEs. To resolve different solution behaviours of these variables, the meshes can…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-05-27 Thomas Witkowski , Axel Voigt

We design a cut finite element method for the incompressible Stokes equations on curved domains. The cut finite element method allows for the domain boundary to cut through the elements of the computational mesh in a very general fashion.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-24 Erik Burman , Peter Hansbo , Mats G. Larson

We show quasi-optimality and a posteriori error estimates for the frictionless contact problem between two elastic bodies with a zero-gap function. The analysis is based on interpreting Nitsche's method as a stabilised finite element method…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-05 Tom Gustafsson , Rolf Stenberg , Juha Videman

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

In this paper, a stabilized extended finite element method is proposed for Stokes interface problems on unfitted triangulation elements which do not require the interface align with the triangulation. The velocity solution and pressure…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-01-19 Xiaoxiao He , Fei Song , Weibing Deng

We formulate and analyze a Nitsche-type algorithm for frictional contact problems. The method is derived from, and analyzed as, a stabilized finite element method and shown to be quasi-optimal, as well as suitable as an adaptive scheme…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Tom Gustafsson , Juha Videman

A finite element methodology for large classes of variational boundary value problems is defined which involves discretizing two linear operators: (1) the differential operator defining the spatial boundary value problem; and (2) a Riesz…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Brendan Keith , Socratis Petrides , Federico Fuentes , Leszek Demkowicz

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