A particular discontinuous Galerkin finite element formulation for the simulation of Kirchhoff plates is presented. It is rotation-free and utilises standard C 0 Lagrange finite element basis functions, with the required continuity imposed in a weak sense across element boundaries. The implications
A new discontinuous Galerkin method for Kirchhoff plates
β Scribed by Jianguo Huang; Xuehai Huang; Weimin Han
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 534 KB
- Volume
- 199
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0045-7825
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β¦ Synopsis
A general framework of constructing C 0 discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) methods is developed for solving the Kirchhoff plate bending problem, following some ideas in (Castillo et al., 2000) [10] and (Cockburn, 2003) [12]. The numerical traces are determined based on a discrete stability identity, which lead to a class of stable CDG methods. A stable CDG method, called the LCDG method, is particularly interesting in our study. It can be viewed as an extension to fourth-order problems of the LDG method studied in (Castillo et al., 2000) [10] and (Cockburn, 2003) [12]. For this method, optimal order error estimates in certain broken energy norm and H 1 -norm are established. Some numerical results are reported, confirming the theoretical convergence orders.
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