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ACCURACY ENHANCEMENT FOR THE SIGNORINI PROBLEM WITH FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

  • LI Ming-Xia ,
  • CHEN Hong-Tao ,
  • MAO Shi-Peng
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  • School of Information Engineering, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China; LSEC, Institute of Computational Mathematics, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
    Beijing 100190,  |China

Received date: 2009-07-15

  Revised date: 2009-12-22

  Online published: 2011-05-20

Abstract

In this paper, we  study the accuracy enhancement for the frictionless Signorini  problem on  a polygonal domain with linear finite elements. Numerical test is given to verify our result.

Cite this article

LI Ming-Xia , CHEN Hong-Tao , MAO Shi-Peng . ACCURACY ENHANCEMENT FOR THE SIGNORINI PROBLEM WITH FINITE ELEMENT METHOD[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2011 , 31(3) : 897 -908 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60284-1

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