A novel nonlinear formulation of finite element and Galerkin methods is presented here, which leads to the Hadamard product expression of the resultant nonlinear algebraic analogue. The presented formulation attains the advantages of weak formulation in the standard finite element and Galerkin schemes and avoids the costly repeated numerical integration of the Jacobian matrix via the recently d...

We present a stabilized finite element method for the Hu-Washizu formulation of linear elasticity based on simplicial meshes leading to the stabilized nodal strain formulation or node-based uniform strain elements. We show that the finite element approximation converges uniformly to the exact solution for the nearly incompressible case.

The occurrence of spurious solutions is a well-known limitation of the standard nodal finite element method when applied to electromagnetic problems. The two commonly used remedies that are used to address this problem are (i) The addition of a penalty term with the penalty factor based on the local dielectric constant, and which reduces to a Helmholtz form on homogeneous domains (regularized f...

Recently, a finite element formulation, called the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF), was proposed for the large rotation and deformation analysis of flexible bodies. In this formulation, absolute position and slope coordinates are used to define the finite element configuration. Infinitesimal or finite rotations are not used as nodal coordinates. The ANCF finite elements have many u...