A NEW INTERIOR PENALTY DISCONTINUOUS GALERKIN METHOD FOR THE REISSNER–MINDLIN MODEL

Source abstract

We introduce an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for the Reissner–Mindlin plate model that, as the plate's half-thickness ϵ tends to zero, recovers a hp interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for biharmonic equation. Our method does not introduce shear as an extra unknown, and does not need reduced integration techniques. We develop the a priori error analysis of these methods and prove error bounds that are optimal in h and uniform in ϵ. Numerical tests, that confirm our predictions, are provided.