A POSTERIORI ERROR ESTIMATOR FOR LINEAR ELASTICITY BASED ON NONSYMMETRIC STRESS TENSOR APPROXIMATION

초록

In this paper we present an a posteriori error estimator for the stabilized P1 nonconforming finite element method of the linear elasticity problem based on a nonsymmetric H(div)-conforming approximation of the stress tensor in the first-order Raviart–Thomas space. By combining the equilibrated residual method and the hypercircle method, it is shown that the error estimator gives a fully computable upper bound on the actual error. Numerical results are provided to confirm the theory and illustrate the effectiveness of our error estimator.

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