An Optimal Error Estimates of -Galerkin Expanded Mixed Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Viscoelasticity-Type Equation.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Mathematical Problems in Engineering Volume 2011, Article ID 570980, 18 pages doi:10.1155/2011/570980 Research Article An Optimal Error Estimates of H1-Galerkin Expanded Mixed Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Viscoelasticity-Type Equation Haitao Che,1, 2 Yiju Wang,1 and Zhaojie Zhou3 1 School of Management Science, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, Shandong 276800, China 2 School of Mathematics and Information Science, Weifang University, Weifang, Shandong 261000, China 3 School of Mathematical Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250014, China Correspondence should be addressed to Haitao Che, haitaoche@163.com Received 30 March 2011; Revised 14 August 2011; Accepted 21 August 2011 Academic Editor: Ben T. Nohara Copyright q 2011 Haitao Che et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. We investigate a H1-Galerkin mixed finite element method for nonlinear viscoelasticity equations based on H1-Galerkin method and expanded mixed element method. The existence and uniqueness of solutions to the numerical scheme are proved. A priori error estimation is derived for the unknown function, the gradient function, and the flux. 1. Introduction Consider the following nonlinear viscoelasticity-type equation: u − ∇ · a x, u ∇u b x, u ∇u f x, t , x, t ∈ Ω × J, tt t u x, t 0, x, t ∈ ∂Ω × J, 1.1