it is well-known that dam-reservoir interaction has significant effects on the response of dams to the earthquakes. this phenomenon should be considered more exactly in the seismic design of dams with a rational and reliable dynamic analysis method. in this research, seismic analysis of the dam-reservoir is studied as a wave propagation problem by using legendre spectral element method (sem). t...

A recent study [4] reveals that convergence of finite element methods usingH(div ,Ω)compatible finite element spaces deteriorates on non-affine quadrilateral grids. This phenomena is particularly troublesome for the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas elements, because it implies loss of convergence in some norms for finite element solutions of mixed and least-squares methods. In this paper we propose ...

We present an expanded mixed finite element method for solving second-order elliptic partial differential equations on geometrically general domains. For the lowest-order Raviart–Thomas approximating spaces, we use quadrature rules to reduce the method to cell-centered finite differences, possibly enhanced with some face-centered pressures. This substantially reduces the computational complexit...

• Mixed methods for elastodynamics with weak symmetry. • Mixed finite elements for elasticity on quadrilateral meshes. • Finite element differential forms on curvilinear cubic meshes and their approximation properties. Numer. • Nonconforming tetrahedral mixed finite elements for elasticity. • Mixed finite element approximation of the vector Laplacian with Dirichlet boundary conditions. Math. • ...

We consider the finite element solution of the vector Laplace equation on a domain in two dimensions. For various choices of boundary conditions, it is known that a mixed finite element method, in which the rotation of the solution is introduced as a second unknown, is advantageous, and appropriate choices of mixed finite element spaces lead to a stable, optimally convergent discretization. How...

In this paper, a nonconforming mixed finite element method is studied for semilinear pseudo-hyperbolic partial integrodifferential equations. By use of the interpolation technique instead of the generalized elliptic projection, the optimal error estimates of the corresponding unknown function are given. Keywords—Pseudo-hyperbolic partial integro-differential equations; Nonconforming mixed eleme...

We show how mixed finite element methods that satisfy the conditions of finite element exterior calculus can be used for the horizontal discretisation of dynamical cores for numerical weather prediction on pseudo-uniform grids. This family of mixed finite element methods can be thought of in the numerical weather prediction context as a generalisation of the popular polygonal C-grid finite diff...