[en] Incompressibility ; Finite elements ; Displacement method
[en] A mathematical description of the numerical approximation to incompressibility with nearly incompressible displacement finite elements is presented. By the way of functional analysis, it leads to a condition of convergence to the incompressible problem when v is increased up to 0.5, which can be identified with Fried's K1 criterion.
Fried obtained the same result in 1974 from an analysis of the matrices arising in this approach. Here, the analysis is performed in the more general frame of functional analysis.