TY - JOUR T1 - Semi-Discrete and Fully Discrete Weak Galerkin Finite Element Methods for a Quasistatic Maxwell Viscoelastic Model AU - Xiao , Jihong AU - Zhu , Zimo AU - Xie , Xiaoping JO - Numerical Mathematics: Theory, Methods and Applications VL - 1 SP - 79 EP - 110 PY - 2023 DA - 2023/01 SN - 16 DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/nmtma.OA-2022-0024 UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/nmtma/21344.html KW - Quasistatic Maxwell viscoelastic model, weak Galerkin method, semi-discrete scheme, fully discrete scheme, error estimate. AB -

This paper considers weak Galerkin finite element approximations on polygonal/polyhedral meshes for a quasistatic Maxwell viscoelastic model. The spatial discretization uses piecewise polynomials of degree $k (k ≥ 1)$ for the stress approximation, degree $k+1$ for the velocity approximation, and degree $k$ for the numerical trace of velocity on the inter-element boundaries. The temporal discretization in the fully discrete method adopts a backward Euler difference scheme. We show the existence and uniqueness of the semi-discrete and fully discrete solutions, and derive optimal a priori error estimates. Numerical examples are provided to support the theoretical analysis.