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One- and two-level Schwarz methods for variational inequalities of the second kind and their application to frictional contact

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We present and analyze subspace correction methods for the solution of variational inequalities of the second kind and apply these theoretical results to non smooth contact problems in linear elasticity with Tresca and non-local Coulomb friction. We introduce these methods in a reflexive Banach space, prove that they are globally convergent and give error estimates. In the context of finite element discretizations, where our methods turn out to be one- and two-level Schwarz methods, we specify their convergence rate and its dependence on the discretization parameters and conclude that our methods converge optimally. Transferring this results to frictional contact problems, we thus can overcome the mesh dependence of some fixed-point schemes which are commonly employed for contact problems with Coulomb friction.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, P.O. Box 1-764, 014700, Bucharest, Romania

    L. Badea

  2. Institute of Computational Science, University of Lugano, via Giuseppe Buffi 13, 6900, Lugano, Switzerland

    R. Krause

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Badea, L., Krause, R. One- and two-level Schwarz methods for variational inequalities of the second kind and their application to frictional contact. Numer. Math. 120, 573–599 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00211-011-0423-y

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