Adaptive multigrid methods for Signorini's problem in linear elasticity

Ralf Kornhuber, Rolf Krause

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Abstract

We derive globally convergent multigrid methods for the discretized Signorini problem in linear elasticity. Special care has to be taken in the case of spatially varying normal directions. In numerical experiments for 2 and 3 space dimensions we observed similar convergence rates as for corresponding linear problems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)9-20
Number of pages12
JournalComputing and Visualization in Science
Volume4
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2001

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Software
  • Modeling and Simulation
  • General Engineering
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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