A reduced constraint $hp$ finite element method for shell problems

A reduced constraint hp finite element method for shell problems

We propose and analyze an hp finite element method for the Nagdhi shell model, based on rectangular elements. We show that for the bending-dominated case, assuming sufficient smoothness on the solution, the method is locking free in terms of both h and p, as the thickness of the shell tends to zero. Our results are established under the assumption that the geometrical coefficients appearing in ...

THE hp FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR SINGULARLYPERTURBED PROBLEMS IN SMOOTH

We consider the numerical approximation of singularly perturbed elliptic problems in smooth domains. The solution to such problems can be decomposed into a smooth part and a boundary layer part. We present guidelines for the eeective resolution of boundary layers in the context of the hp nite element method and we construct tensor product spaces that approximate these layers uniformly at a near...

Hp Finite Element Method for Convection-diiusion Problems

Hp-finite Element Methods for Hyperbolic Problems A

This paper is devoted to the a priori and a posteriori error analysis of the hp-version of the discontinuous Galerkin nite element method for partial differential equations of hyperbolic and nearly-hyperbolic character. We consider second-order partial diierential equations with nonnegative characteristic form, a large class of equations which includes convection-dominated diiusion problems , d...

A discontinuous Galerkin Method for parabolic problems with modified hp-finite element approximation technique

A recent paper [Hideaki Kaneko, Kim S. Bey, Gene J.W. Hou, Discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for parabolic problems, preprint November 2000, NASA] is generalized to a case where the spatial region is taken in R. The region is assumed to be a thin body, such as a panel on the wing or fuselage of an aerospace vehicle. The traditional has well as hp-finite element methods are applied to...