Adaptive coupling of boundary elements and mixed finite elements for incompressible elasticity

The coupling of finite elements and boundary elements is analyzed, where in the FEM domain we assume an incompressible elastic material governed by a uniformly monotone operator and use a Stokes-type mixed FEM. In the BEM domain, linear elasticity is considered. We prove existence and uniqueness of the solution and quasi-optimal convergence of a Galerkin method. We derive an a posteriori error estimator of explicit residual type. (C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.