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In this paper we design high-order local artificial boundary conditions and present error bounds for the finite element approximation of an incompressible elastic material in an unbounded domain. The finite element approximation is formulated in a bounded computational domain using a nonlocal approximate artificial boundary condition or a local one. In fact there are a family of nonlocal approximate artificial boundary conditions with increasing accuracy (and computational cost) and a family of local ones for a given artificial boundary. Our error bounds indicate how the errors of the finite element approximations depend on the mesh size, the terms used in the approximate artificial boundary condition and the location of the artificial boundary. Numerical examples of an incompressible elastic material outside a circle in the plane is presented. Numerical results demonstrate the performance of our error bounds.
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Received August 31, 1998 / Revised version received November 6, 2001 / Published online March 8, 2002
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Bao, W., Han, H. Error bounds for the finite element approximation of an incompressible material in an unbounded domain. Numer. Math. 93, 415–444 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002110100387
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s002110100387