Spectral analysis of a mixed method for linear elasticity
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze a mixed method for linear elasticity eigenvalue problem, which approximates numerically the stress, displacement, and rotation, by piecewise (k+1), k and (k+1)-th degree polynomial functions (k≥ 1), respectively. The numerical eigenfunction of stress is symmetric. By the discrete H^1-stability of numerical displacement, we prove an O(h^k+2) approximation to the L^2-orthogonal projection of the eigenspace of exact displacement for the eigenvalue problem with proper regularity assumption. Thus via postprocessing, we obtain a better approximation to the exact displacement of the eigenproblem than conventional methods. We also prove that numerical approximation to the eigenfunction of stress is locking free with respect to Poisson ratio. We introduce a hybridization to reduce the mixed method to a condensed eigenproblem and prove an O(h^2) initial approximation (independent of the inverse of the elasticity operator) of the eigenvalue for the nonlinear eigenvalue problems by using the discrete H^1-stability of numerical displacement, while only O(h) approximation can be obtained if we use the traditional inf-sup condition.
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