A sign preserving mixed finite element approximation for contact problems

Patrick Hild

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (2011)

  • Volume: 21, Issue: 3, page 487-498
  • ISSN: 1641-876X

Abstract

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This paper is concerned with the frictionless unilateral contact problem (i.e., a Signorini problem with the elasticity operator). We consider a mixed finite element method in which the unknowns are the displacement field and the contact pressure. The particularity of the method is that it furnishes a normal displacement field and a contact pressure satisfying the sign conditions of the continuous problem. The a priori error analysis of the method is closely linked with the study of a specific positivity preserving operator of averaging type which differs from the one of Chen and Nochetto. We show that this method is convergent and satisfies the same a priori error estimates as the standard approach in which the approximated contact pressure satisfies only a weak sign condition. Finally we perform some computations to illustrate and compare the sign preserving method with the standard approach.

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Patrick Hild. "A sign preserving mixed finite element approximation for contact problems." International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 21.3 (2011): 487-498. <http://eudml.org/doc/208063>.

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