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100 1 _aHengguang Li
245 1 0 _aA $C^0$ finite element method for the biharmonic problem with Navier boundary conditions in a polygonal domain
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520 _aIn this paper, we study the biharmonic equation with the Navier boundary conditions in a polygonal domain. In particular, we propose a method that effectively decouples the 4th-order problem into a system of Poisson equations. Different from the usual mixed method that leads to two Poisson problems but only applies to convex domains, the proposed decomposition involves a third Poisson equation to confine the solution in the correct function space, and therefore can be used in both convex and non-convex domains. A $C^0$ finite element algorithm is in turn proposed to solve the resulted system. In addition, we derive the optimal error estimates for the numerical solution on both quasi-uniform meshes and graded meshes. Numerical test results are presented to justify the theoretical findings.
506 0 _aOpen access — freely available to read.
856 4 0 _uhttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.12374v1
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