This article introduces and analyzes a weak Galerkin mixed finite element method for solving the biharmonic equation. The weak Galerkin method, first introduced by two of the authors (J. Wang and X. Ye) in [52] for second order elliptic problems, is based on the concept of discrete weak gradients. The method uses completely discrete finite element functions and, using certain discrete spaces an...

The computation of curvature quantities over discrete geometry is often required when processing geometry composed of meshes. Curvature information is often important for the purpose of shape analysis, feature recognition and geometry segmentation. In this paper we present a method for accurate estimation of curvature on discrete geometry especially those composed of meshes. We utilise a method...

The coefficients for a nine-point high-order accuracy discretization scheme for a biharmonic equation∇4u = f(x, y) (∇2 is the two-dimensional Laplacian operator) are derived. The biharmonic problem is defined on a rectangular domain with two types of boundary conditions: (1) u and ∂u/∂n or (2) u and ∂u/∂n (where ∂/∂n is the normal to the boundary derivative) are specified at the boundary. For b...

The biharmonic supercritical equation ∆u = |u|p−1u, where n > 4 and p > (n + 4)/(n − 4), is studied in the whole space R as well as in a modified form with λ(1 + u) as right-hand-side with an additional eigenvalue parameter λ > 0 in the unit ball, in the latter case together with Dirichlet boundary conditions. As for entire regular radial solutions we prove oscillatory behaviour around the expl...

in this paper‎, ‎we prove a multiplicity result for some biharmonic elliptic equation of kirchhoff type and involving nonlinearities with critical exponential growth at infinity‎. ‎using some variational arguments and exploiting the symmetries of the problem‎, ‎we establish a multiplicity result giving two nontrivial solutions‎.