A model is provided for crack problem in a functionally graded semi-infinite plate under an anti-plane load. The characteristic of material behavior is assumed to change in a linear manner along the plate length. Also the embedded crack is placed in the direction of the material change. The problem is solved using two separate techniques. Primary, by applying Laplace and Fourier transformation,...

Abstract. Superconvergence of the velocity is established for mimetic finite difference approximations of second-order elliptic problems over h2-uniform quadrilateral meshes. The superconvergence result holds for a full tensor coefficient. The analysis exploits the relation between mimetic finite differences and mixed finite element methods via a special quadrature rule for computing the scalar...

The current paper presents a pseudo-sweep algorithm to determine whether a given volume constitutes an approximately swept shape for the purpose of hexahedral finite element mesh generation. The pseudo-swept shape determination approach consists of three steps. Step 1: Determining the source surface, target surface, and lateral surface of a given solid object B. Two requirements: topological an...

A general adaptive element subdivision technique is presented for the numerical evaluation of weakly singular integrals, which often appear in three-dimensional boundary element analysis equations. In this algorithm, the weakly singular boundary element is broken up into a few sub-elements through a sphere of decreasing radius. The sub-elements involving the singular point are evaluated numeric...

Adjerid et al. 2] and Yu 19, 20] show that a posteriori estimates of spatial discretiza-tion errors of piecewise bi-p polynomial nite element solutions of elliptic and parabolic problems on meshes of square elements may be obtained from jumps in solution gradients at element vertices when p is odd and from local elliptic or parabolic problems when p is even. We show that these simple error esti...

Based on the low-order conforming finite element subspace (Vh, Mh) such as the P1-P0 triangle element or the Q1-P0 quadrilateral element, the locally stabilized finite element method for the Stokes problem with nonlinear slip boundary conditions is investigated in this paper. For this class of nonlinear slip boundary conditions including the subdifferential property, the weak variational formul...