Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity

A discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for incompressible, non-linear elasticity is derived. One of the limitations of the continuous Galerkin finite element method (CGFEM) when applied to incompressible elasticity is that the accuracy of the numerical solution may be adversely affec...

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Main Author: Whiteley, J
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009
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description A discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for incompressible, non-linear elasticity is derived. One of the limitations of the continuous Galerkin finite element method (CGFEM) when applied to incompressible elasticity is that the accuracy of the numerical solution may be adversely affected by the phenomenon known as locking-this may prevent the use of a low order polynomial approximation to the displacement on each element. We demonstrate using simulations that the DGFEM presented here does not suffer from this drawback. Two further advantages in this setting of this DGFEM over CGFEMs are that: (i) highly anisotropic meshes-meshes containing elements with a very high aspect ratio-may be used without significantly degrading the accuracy of the solution; and (ii) discontinuities in the elasticity parameters are handled more effectively. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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spelling oxford-uuid:9ce2bde8-25c7-47ba-afeb-dc84a8c7ba112022-03-27T00:39:17ZDiscontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticityJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:9ce2bde8-25c7-47ba-afeb-dc84a8c7ba11EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2009Whiteley, JA discontinuous Galerkin finite element method (DGFEM) for incompressible, non-linear elasticity is derived. One of the limitations of the continuous Galerkin finite element method (CGFEM) when applied to incompressible elasticity is that the accuracy of the numerical solution may be adversely affected by the phenomenon known as locking-this may prevent the use of a low order polynomial approximation to the displacement on each element. We demonstrate using simulations that the DGFEM presented here does not suffer from this drawback. Two further advantages in this setting of this DGFEM over CGFEMs are that: (i) highly anisotropic meshes-meshes containing elements with a very high aspect ratio-may be used without significantly degrading the accuracy of the solution; and (ii) discontinuities in the elasticity parameters are handled more effectively. © 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity
title Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity
title_full Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity
title_fullStr Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity
title_full_unstemmed Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity
title_short Discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non-linear elasticity
title_sort discontinuous galerkin finite element methods for incompressible non linear elasticity
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