On the Construction of Well-Conditioned Hierarchical Bases for $\mathcal{H}(div)$-Conforming $\mathbb{R}^n$ Simplicial Elements

On the Construction of Well-Conditioned Hierarchical Bases for $\mathcal{H}(div)$-Conforming $\mathbb{R}^n$ Simplicial Elements

Year:    2013

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 14 (2013), Iss. 3 : pp. 621–638

Abstract

Hierarchical bases of arbitrary order for  $\mathcal{H}(div)$-conforming triangular and tetrahedral elements are constructed with the goal of improving the conditioning of the mass and stiffness matrices. For the basis with the triangular element, it is found numerically that the conditioning is acceptable up to the approximation of order four, and is better than a corresponding basis in the dissertation by Sabine Zaglmayr [High Order Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetic Field Computation, Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, 2006]. The sparsity of the mass matrices from the newly constructed basis and from the one by Zaglmayr is similar for approximations up to order four. The stiffness matrix with the new basis is much sparser than that with the basis by Zaglmayr for approximations up to order four. For the tetrahedral element, it is identified numerically that the conditioning is acceptable only up to the approximation of order three. Compared with the newly constructed basis for the triangular element, the sparsity of the mass matrices from the basis for the tetrahedral element is relatively sparser.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/cicp.100412.041112a

Communications in Computational Physics, Vol. 14 (2013), Iss. 3 : pp. 621–638

Published online:    2013-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    18

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