About One Variational Problem, Leading to а Biharmonic Equation, and about the Approximate Solution of the Main Boundary Value Problem for this Equation

. Many important questions in the theory of elasticity lead to a variational problem associated with a biharmonic equation and to the corresponding boundary value problems for such an equation. The paper considers the main boundary value problem for the biharmonic equation in the unit circle. This problem leads, for example, to the study of plate deflections in the case of kinematic boundary conditions, when the displacements and their derivatives depend on the circular coordinate. The exact solution of the considered boundary value problem is known. The desired biharmonic function can be represented explicitly in the unit circle by means of the Poisson integral. An approximate solution of this problem is sometimes foundusing difference schemes. To do this, a grid with cells of small diameter is thrown onto the circle, and at each grid node all partial derivatives of the problem are replaced by their finite-difference relations.  As a result, a system of linear algebraic equations arises for unknown approximate values of the biharmonic function, from which they are uniquely found. The disadvantage of this method is that the above system is not always easy to solve. In addition, we get the solution not at any point of the circle, but only at the nodes of the grid. For real calculations and numerical analysis of solutions to applied problems, the authors have constructed its unified analytical approximate representation on the basis of the known exact solution of the boundary value problem while using logarithms. The approximate formula has a simple form and can be easily implemented numerically. Uniform error estimates make it possible to perform calculations with a given accuracy. All coefficients of the quadrature formula for the Poisson integral are non-negative, which greatly simplifies the study of the approximate solution. An analysis of the quadrature sum for stability is carried out. An example of solving a boundary value problem is considered.