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Dg And Hdg Methods For Curved Structures, Li Fan Jan 2013

Dg And Hdg Methods For Curved Structures, Li Fan

Wayne State University Dissertations

We introduce and analyze discontinuous Galerkin methods

for a Naghdi type arch model. We prove that, when the numerical traces are properly chosen, the methods display optimal convergence uniformly with respect to the thickness of the arch. These methods are thus free from membrane and shear locking.

We also prove that, when polynomials of degree $k$ are used,

{\em all} the numerical traces superconverge with a rate of order

h 2k+1.

Based on the superconvergent phenomenon and we show how to

post-process them in an element-by-element fashion

to obtain a far better approximation. Indeed, we prove that,

if polynomials …