Morley type non‐C0nonconforming rectangular plate finite elements on anisotropic meshes

In this article, two Morley type non‐C0nonconforming rectangular finite elements are discussed to numerically solve the fourth order plate bending problem under anisotropic meshes. The optimal anisotropic interpolation error and consistency error estimates are obtained by using some novel approaches. Some numerical tests are given to confirm the theoretical analysis. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2010