A quadrilateral nonconforming finite element for linear elasticity problem

In this paper, a four-parameter quadrilateral nonconforming finite element with DSP (double set parameters) is presented. Then we discuss the quadrilateral nonconforming finite element approximation to the linear elastic equations with pure displacement boundary. The optimal convergence rate of the method is established in the broken energy and -norms, and in particular, the convergence is uniform with respect to the Lamé parameter . Also the performance of the scheme does not deteriorate as the material becomes nearly incompressible. Lastly, a numerical test is carried out, which coincides with our theoretical analysis. The research is supported by NSF of China (No. 10471133) and the project of Creative Engineering of Henan Province of China.     

A simple four-node quadrilateral finite element for plates

A simple and accurate four-node quadrilateral finite element based on the Mindlin plate theory and Kirchhoff constraints is presented for general thin plate bending applications. The derivation of the element stiffness properties is straightforward, starting with a specified eight-node interpolation; usual discrete Kirchhoff (DK) constraints are employed to constrain out the four midside nodes of the element. The present resulting DK element passes patch tests with elements of arbitrary and even highly distorted mesh types. Numerical studies of the element convergence behaviours are undertaken for various plate bending problems so far investigated. It is indicated from comparative examples that fairly good convergence characteristics have been achieved.     

Simple nonconforming quadrilateral Stokes element

A simple nonconforming quadrilateral Stokes element based on “rotated” multi-linear shape functions is analyzed. On strongly nonuniform meshes the usual parametric version of this element suffers from a lack of consistency, while its nonparametric counterpart turns out to be convergent with optimal orders. This theoretical result is confirmed by numerical tests.     

Stokes方程的一个新的非协调四边形单元格式

对于Stokes方程给出了一个新的非协调四边形单元格式.新单元具有构造简单,自由度较少等优势.特别指出的是,该单元在矩形网格下,还是一个Locking-free元,可用于平面弹性问题.尽管该单元不含协调部分,其相容误差估计较困难,通过采用新的技巧和方法得到了最优误差估计.     

A class of nonconforming quadrilateral finite elements for incompressible flow

This paper focuses on the low-order nonconforming rectangular and quadrilateral finite elements approximation of incompressible flow.Beyond the previous research works,we propose a general strategy to construct the basis functions.Under several specific constraints,the optimal error estimates are obtained,i.e.,the first order accuracy of the velocities in H1-norm and the pressure in L2-norm,as well as the second order accuracy of the velocities in L2-norm.Besides,we clarify the differences between rectangular and quadrilateral finite element approximation.In addition,we give several examples to verify the validity of our error estimates.     

A nonconforming quadrilateral element with maximal inf‐sup constant

A new nonconforming element is introduced for quadrilateral meshes. The element is designed to maximize the inf‐sup constant for a Stokes element pair. Numerical results are presented and we observe that the maximizing inf‐sup constant results in efficiency of computing time. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 30: 12‐132, 2014     

A mixed nonconforming finite element for linear elasticity

This article considers a mixed finite element method for linear elasticity. It is based on a modified mixed formulation that enforces the continuity of the stress weakly by adding a jump term of the approximated stress on interior edges. The symmetric stress are approximated by nonconforming linear elements and the displacement by piecewise constants. We establish ??(h) error bound in the (broken) L² norm for the divergence of the stress and ??(h) error bound in the L² norm for both the displacement and the stress tensor. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2005.     

A new quadratic nonconforming finite element on rectangles

A new quadratic nonconforming finite element on rectangles (or parallelograms) is introduced. The nonconforming element consists of P₂ ⊕ Span{x²y,xy²} on a rectangle and eight degrees of freedom. Our element is essentially of seven degrees of freedom since the degree of freedom associated with the integration on rectangle is essentially of bubble‐function nature. Global basis functions are constructed for both Dirichlet and Neumann type of problems; accordingly the corresponding dimensions are counted. The local and global interpolation operators are defined. Error estimates of optimal order are derived in both broken energy and L²(Ω) norms for second‐order of elliptic problems. Brief numerical results are also shown to confirm the optimality of the presented quadratic nonconforming element. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2006     

A new cubic nonconforming finite element on rectangles

A new nonconforming rectangle element with cubic convergence for the energy norm is introduced. The degrees of freedom (DOFs) are defined by the 12 values at the three Gauss points on each of the four edges. Due to the existence of one linear relation among the above DOFs, it turns out the DOFs are 11. The nonconforming element consists of . We count the corresponding dimension for Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems of second‐order elliptic problems. We also present the optimal error estimates in both broken energy and norms. Finally, numerical examples match our theoretical results very well. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 31: 691–705, 2015     

Convergence of the nonconforming Wilson element for arbitrary quadrilateral meshes

Summary A modified variational formulation, recently introduced by Taylor, Beresford and Wilson for solving second order problems, using the nonconforming Wilson element is here analysed. It is shown that the Patch Test is satisfied and that stresses and displacements are respectively first and second order accurate for arbitrary quadrilateral meshes.     

A new superconvergence property of Wilson nonconforming finite element

Summary. In this paper the Wilson nonconforming finite element method is considered to solve a class of two-dimensional second-order elliptic boundary value problems. A new superconvergence property at the vertices and the midpoints of four edges of rectangular meshes is obtained. Received May 5, 1995 / Revised version received November 11, 1996     

A posteriori error estimates for nonconforming finite element methods

Summary. Computable a posteriori error bounds for a large class of nonconforming finite element methods are provided for a model Poisson-problem in two and three space dimensions. Besides a refined residual-based a posteriori error estimate, an averaging estimator is established and an -estimate is included. The a posteriori error estimates are reliable and efficient; the proof of reliability relies on a Helmholtz decomposition. Received March 4, 1997 / Revised version received September 4, 2001 / Published online December 18, 2001     

A nonconforming mixed finite element for second-order elliptic problems

In a recent work, Hiptmair [Mathematisches Institut, M9404, 1994] has constructed and analyzed a family of nonconforming mixed finite elements for second-order elliptic problems. However, his analysis does not work on the lowest order elements. In this article, we show that it is possible to construct a nonconforming mixed finite element for the lowest order case. We prove the convergence and give estimates of optimal order for this finite element. Our proof is based on the use of the properties of the so-called nonconforming bubble function to control the consistency terms introduced by the nonconforming approximation. We further establish an equivalence between this mixed finite element and the nonconforming piecewise quadratic finite element of Fortin and Soulie [J. Numer. Methods Eng., 19, 505–520, 1983]. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 13: 445–457, 1997     

Interior estimates for nonconforming finite element methods

Summary. Interior error estimates are derived for a wide class of nonconforming finite element methods for second order scalar elliptic boundary value problems. It is shown that the error in an interior domain can be estimated by three terms: the first one measures the local approximability of the finite element space to the exact solution, the second one measures the degree of continuity of the finite element space (the consistency error), and the last one expresses the global effect through the error in an arbitrarily weak Sobolev norm over a slightly larger domain. As an application, interior superconvergences of some difference quotients of the finite element solution are obtained for the derivatives of the exact solution when the mesh satisfies some translation invariant condition. Received December 29, 1994     

Nonconforming finite element methods on quadrilateral meshes

It is well known that it is comparatively difcult to design nonconforming fnite elements on quadrilateral meshes by using Gauss-Legendre points on each edge of triangulations.One reason lies in that these degrees of freedom associated with these Gauss-Legendre points are not all linearly independent for usual expected polynomial spaces,which explains why only several lower order nonconforming quadrilateral fnite elements can be found in literature.The present paper proposes two families of nonconforming fnite elements of any odd order and one family of nonconforming fnite elements of any even order on quadrilateral meshes.Degrees of freedom are given for these elements,which are proved to be well-defned for their corresponding shape function spaces in a unifying way.These elements generalize three lower order nonconforming fnite elements on quadrilaterals to any order.In addition,these nonconforming fnite element spaces are shown to be full spaces which is somehow not discussed for nonconforming fnite elements in literature before.     

An anisotropic, superconvergent nonconforming plate finite element

The classical finite element convergence analysis relies on the following regularity condition: there exists a constant c independent of the element K and the mesh such that h_K/ρ_Kc, where h_K and ρ_K are diameters of K and the biggest ball contained in K, respectively. In this paper, we construct a new, nonconforming rectangular plate element by the double set parameter method. We prove the convergence of this element without the above regularity condition. The key in our proof is to obtain the O(h²) consistency error. We also prove the superconvergence of this element for narrow rectangular meshes. Results of our numerical tests agree well with our analysis.     

A new a priori error estimate of nonconforming finite element methods

This paper is devoted to a new error analysis of nonconforming finite element methods.Compared with the classic error analysis in literature,only weak continuity,the F-E-M-Test for nonconforming finite element spaces,and basic Hm regularity for exact solutions of 2m-th order elliptic problems under consideration are assumed.The analysis is motivated by ideas from a posteriori error estimates and projection average operators.One main ingredient is a novel decomposition for some key average terms on(n.1)-dimensional faces by introducing a piecewise constant projection,which defines the generalization to more general nonconforming finite elements of the results in literature.The analysis and results herein are conjectured to apply for all nonconforming finite elements in literature.     

A LOCKING-FREE ANISOTROPIC NONCONFORMING FINITE ELEMENT FOR PLANAR LINEAR ELASTICITY PROBLEM

The main aim of this article is to study the approximation of a locking-free anisotropic nonconforming finite element for the pure displacement boundary value prob-lem of planar linear elasticity. The optimal error estimates are obtained by using some novel approaches and techniques. The method proposed in this article is robust in the sense that the convergence estimates in the energy and L2-norms are independent of the Lame parameterλ.     

Discrete compactness property for quadrilateral finite element spaces

The main purpose of the present article is to prove the discrete compactness property for Arnold‐Boffi‐Falk spaces of any order. Results of numerical experiments confirming the theory are also reported. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2005