An energy consistent hybrid space‐time Galerkin method for nonlinear thermomechanical problems

In this paper, we present an energy consistent hybrid space-time discretisation for thermomechanical coupled continuum dynamics, which is directly derived from the total energy itself. In comparison to a standard time approximation, we obtain the same advantages as for viscoelasticity [1], which are numerical stability and time step size independent balance laws as well as qualitative solutions. (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)