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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 extend the hybridization procedure proposed in [Arnold, Brezzi, 1985, ESAIM: M2AN] to the Virtual Element Method for linear elasticity problems based on the Hellinger-Reissner principle. To illustrate such a technique, we focus on the 2D…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Franco Dassi , Carlo Lovadina , Michele Visinoni

In this paper, we present a first-order Stress-Hybrid Virtual Element Method (SH-VEM) on six-noded triangular meshes for linear plane elasticity. We adopt the Hellinger--Reissner variational principle to construct a weak equilibrium…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Alvin Chen , Joseph E. Bishop , N. Sukumar

We propose two parameter-robust mixed finite element methods for linear Cosserat elasticity. The Cosserat coupling constant $\mu_c$, connecting the displacement $u$ and rotation vector $\omega$, leads to possible locking phenomena in finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-19 Andrea Dziubek , Kaibo Hu , Michael Karow , Michael Neunteufel

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

A low-order nonconforming finite element discretization of a smooth de Rham complex starting from the $H^2$ space in three dimensions is proposed, involving an $H^2$-nonconforming finite element space, a new tangentially continuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-05 Xuewei Cui , Xuehai Huang

We consider an elliptic partial differential equation in non-divergence form with a random diffusion matrix and random forcing term. To address this, we propose a mixed-type continuous finite element discretization in the physical domain,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-04 Amireh Mousavi

We introduce a new discretization of a mixed formulation of the incompressible Stokes equations that includes symmetric viscous stresses. The method is built upon a mass conserving mixed formulation that we recently studied. The improvement…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Jay Gopalakrishnan , Philip L. Lederer , Joachim Schöberl

For the planar Navier--Lam\'e equation in mixed form with symmetric stress tensors, we prove the uniform quasi-optimal convergence of an adaptive method based on the hybridized mixed finite element proposed in [Gong, Wu, and Xu:…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-30 Yuwen Li

We propose a new class of finite element approximations to ideal compressible magnetohydrodynamic equations in smooth regime. Following variational approximations developed for fluid models in the last decade, our discretizations are built…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-29 Valentin Carlier , Martin Campos-Pinto

Assumed stress hybrid methods are known to improve the performance of standard displacement-based finite elements and are widely used in computational mechanics. The methods are based on the Hellinger-Reissner variational principle for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Guozhu Yu , Xiaoping Xie , Carsten Carstensen

A stabilized conforming mixed finite element method for the three-field (displacement, fluid flux and pressure) poroelasticity problem is developed and analyzed. We use the lowest possible approximation order, namely piecewise constant…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-23 Lorenz Berger , Rafel Bordas , David Kay , Simon Tavener

We develop multipoint stress mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity with weak stress symmetry on cuboid grids, which can be reduced to a symmetric and positive definite cell-centered system. The methods employ the lowest-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Ibrahim Yazici , Ivan Yotov

The numerical approximation of 2D elasticity problems is considered, in the framework of the small strain theory and in connection with the mixed Hellinger-Reissner variational formulation. A low-order Virtual Element Method (VEM) with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 E. Artioli , S. de Miranda , C. Lovadina , L. Patruno

In this paper, we design two classes of stabilized mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity on simplicial grids. In the first class of elements, we use $\boldsymbol{H}(\mathbf{div}, \Omega; \mathbb{S})$-$P_k$ and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-10-28 Long Chen , Jun Hu , Xuehai Huang

In this paper we analyze a mixed displacement-pseudostress formulation for the elasticity eigenvalue problem. We propose a finite element method to approximate the pseudostress tensor with Raviart-Thomas elements and the displacement with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Daniel Inzunza , Felipe Lepe , Gonzalo Rivera

In this work we develop new finite element discretisations of the shear-deformable Reissner--Mindlin plate problem based on the Hellinger-Reissner principle of symmetric stresses. Specifically, we use conforming Hu-Zhang elements to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Adam Sky , Michael Neunteufel , Jack S. Hale , Andreas Zilian

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

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

This paper is concerned with fully discrete finite element methods for approximating variational solutions of nonlinear stochastic elastic wave equations with multiplicative noise. A detailed analysis of the properties of the weak solution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Xiaobing Feng , Yukun Li , Yujian Lin