Brenner, Susanne C., Davis, Christopher B., and Sung, Li-yeng
Subjects
*KIRCHHOFF'S theory of diffraction, *ERROR analysis in mathematics, *PARAMETER estimation, *NUMERICAL analysis, *MATHEMATICS
Abstract
Abstract: A partition of unity method for the displacement obstacle problem of clamped Kirchhoff plates is considered in this paper. We derive optimal error estimates and present numerical results that illustrate the performance of the method. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]