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For Kirchhoff plate bending problems on domains whose boundaries are curvilinear polygons a discretization method based on the consecutive solution of three second-order problems is presented. In Rafetseder and Zulehner (preprint, arXiv:1703.07962) a new mixed variational formulation of this problem is introduced using a nonstandard Sobolev space (and an associated regular decomposition) for the bending moments. In case of a polygonal domain the coupling condition for the two components in the decomposition can be interpreted as standard boundary conditions, which allows for an equivalent reformulation as a system of three (consecutively to solve) second-order elliptic problems. The extension of this approach to curvilinear polygonal domains poses severe difficulties. Therefore, we propose in this paper an alternative approach based on Lagrange multipliers.

Author

Rafetseder, Katharina; Zulehner, Walter

Published

2017

Language

EN