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A new C0 discontinuous Galerkin method for Kirchhoff plates
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A new C0 discontinuous Galerkin method for Kirchhoff plates

Jianguo Huang, Xuehai Huang and Weimin Han
Computer methods in applied mechanics and engineering, Vol.199(23-24), pp.1446-1454
2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2009.12.012

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Abstract

A general framework of constructing C 0 discontinuous Galerkin (CDG) methods is developed for solving the Kirchhoff plate bending problem, following some ideas in (Castillo et al., 2000) [10] and (Cockburn, 2003) [12] . The numerical traces are determined based on a discrete stability identity, which lead to a class of stable CDG methods. A stable CDG method, called the LCDG method, is particularly interesting in our study. It can be viewed as an extension to fourth-order problems of the LDG method studied in (Castillo et al., 2000) [10] and (Cockburn, 2003) [12] . For this method, optimal order error estimates in certain broken energy norm and H 1 -norm are established. Some numerical results are reported, confirming the theoretical convergence orders.

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