Stable mixed element schemes for plate models on multiply-connected domains

Abstract

In this paper, we study the mixed element schemes of the Reissner-Mindlin plate model and the Kirchhoff plate model in multiply-connected domains. By a regular decomposition of $H_0({\rm rot},Ω)$ and a Helmholtz decomposition of its dual, we develop mixed formulations of the models which are equivalent to the primal ones respectively and which are uniformly stable. A framework of designing uniformly stable finite element schemes is presented, and a specific example is given.