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Convergence analysis of linear or quadratic X-FEM for curved free boundaries. (English) Zbl 1423.74879

Summary: The aim of this paper is to provide a-priori error estimates for problems involving curved interfaces and solved with the linear or quadratic extended finite-element method (X-FEM), with particular emphasis on the influence of the geometry representation and the quadrature. We focus on strong discontinuity problems, which covers the case of holes in a material or cracks not subjected to contact as the main applications. The well-known approximation of the curved geometry based on the interpolated level-set function and straight linear or curved quadratic subcells is used, whose accuracy is quantified by means of an appropriate error measure. A priori error estimates are then derived, which depend upon the interpolation order of the displacement, and foremost upon the above error measure and the quadrature scheme in the subcells. The theoretical predictions are successfully compared with numerical experiments.

MSC:

74S05 Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics
65N30 Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
65N15 Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs
74B05 Classical linear elasticity
74R10 Brittle fracture

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