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A Morley finite element method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates
We study a Morley finite element method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates on polygonal domains. Error estimates are derived in the energy norm and the L norm. The performance of the method is illustrated by numerical experiments. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Finite Element Methods for Fourth Order Variational Inequalities
In this work we study finite element methods for fourth order variational inequalities. We begin with two model problems that lead to fourth order obstacle problems and a brief survey of finite element methods for these problems. Then we review the fundamental results including Sobolev spaces, existence and uniqueness results of variational inequalities, regularity results for biharmonic problems and fourth order obstacle problems, and finite element methods for the biharmonic problem. In Chapter 2 we also include three types of enriching operators which are useful in the convergence analysis. In Chapter 3 we study finite element methods for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates. A unified convergence analysis is provided for finite element methods, classical nonconforming finite element methods and interior penalty methods. The key ingredient in the error analysis is the introduction of the auxiliary obstacle problem. An optimal error estimate in the energy norm is obtained for convex domains. We also address the approximations of the coincidence set and the free boundary. In Chapter 4 we study a Morley finite element method and a quadratic interior penalty method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates with general Dirichlet boundary conditions on general polygonal domains. We prove the magnitudes of the errors in the energy norm and the norm are , where is determined by the interior angles of the polygonal domain. Numerical results are also presented to illustrate the performance of the methods and verify the theoretical results obtained in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. In Chapter 5 we consider an elliptic optimal control problem with state constraints. By formulating the problem as a fourth order obstacle problem with the boundary condition of simply supported plates, we study a quadratic interior penalty method and derive the error estimates in the energy norm based on the framework we introduced in Chapter 3. The rate of convergence is derived for both quasi-uniform meshes and graded meshes. Numerical results presented in this chapter confirm our theoretical results
A Nonconforming Finite Element Approximation for the von Karman Equations
In this paper, a nonconforming finite element method has been proposed and
analyzed for the von Karman equations that describe bending of thin elastic
plates. Optimal order error estimates in broken energy and norms are
derived under minimal regularity assumptions. Numerical results that justify
the theoretical results are presented.Comment: The paper is submitted to an international journa
A partition of unity method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates
A partition of unity method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates is considered in this paper. We derive optimal error estimates and present numerical results that illustrate the performance of the method. © 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Finite Element Methods for Elliptic Distributed Optimal Control Problems with Pointwise State Constraints
Finite element methods for a model elliptic distributed optimal control
problem with pointwise state constraints are considered from the perspective of
fourth order boundary value problems
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Dual analysis for finite element solutions of plate bending
peer reviewedThis paper presents the application of the dual analysis concept to plate bending. In this method, a same problem is analyzed parallely by a displacement and an equilibrium model. The energetic distance between these two models is the sum of both global errors and consequently, an upper bound of each of them. After an exposition of the two models, numerical examples are presented, which illustrate the high obtainable accuracy of the method
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