Convergent FEM for a Membrane Model of Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

DOI10.1137/22m1521584zbMath1528.65101arXiv2209.04754MaRDI QIDQ6089726

Lucas Bouck, Shuo Yang, Ricardo H. Nochetto

Publication date: 15 December 2023

Published in: SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04754

zbMATH Keywords

finite element methodmembrane modelliquid crystal polymer networks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Membranes (74K15)

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