Finite element analysis of the vibration problem of a plate coupled with a fluid

We consider the approximation of the vibration modes of an elastic plate in contact with a compressible fluid. The plate is modelled by Reissner-Mindlin equations while the fluid is described in terms of displacement variables. This formulation leads to a symmetric eigenvalue problem. Reissner-Mindl...

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Autores principales: Durán, R.G., Hervella-Nieto, L., Liberman, E., Rodríguez, R., Solomin, J.
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_0029599X_v86_n4_p591_Duran
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Sumario:We consider the approximation of the vibration modes of an elastic plate in contact with a compressible fluid. The plate is modelled by Reissner-Mindlin equations while the fluid is described in terms of displacement variables. This formulation leads to a symmetric eigenvalue problem. Reissner-Mindlin equations are discretized by a mixed method, the equations for the fluid with Raviart-Thomas elements and a non conforming coupling is used on the interface. In order to prove that the method is locking free we consider a family of problems, one for each thickness t > 0, and introduce appropriate scalings for the physical parameters so that these problems attain a limit when t → 0. We prove that spurious eigenvalues do not arise with this discretization and we obtain optimal order error estimates for the eigenvalues and eigenvectors valid uniformly on the thickness parameter t. © Springer-Verlag 2000.