Direct serendipity and mixed finite elements on convex quadrilaterals
Direct serendipity and mixed finite elements on convex quadrilaterals
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DOI:
10.1007/s00211-022-01274-3
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发表时间:
2022-03
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
T. Arbogast;Zhenzhen Tao;Chuning Wang
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作者:
T. Arbogast;Zhenzhen Tao;Chuning Wang
The classical serendipity and mixed finite element spaces suffer from poor approximation on nondegenerate, convex quadrilaterals. In this paper, we develop families ofdirect serendipityanddirect mixedfinite element spaces, which achieve optimal approximation properties and have minimal local dimension. The set of local shape functions for either the serendipity or mixed elements contains the full set of scalar or vector polynomials of degreer, respectively, defined directly on each element (i.e., not mapped from a reference element). Because there are not enough degrees of freedom for globalorconformity, exactly two supplemental shape functions must be added to each element when, and only one when. The specific choice of supplemental functions gives rise to different families of direct elements. These new spaces are related through a de Rham complex. For index, the new families of serendipity spacesare the precursors under the curl operator of our direct mixed finite element spaces, which can be constructed to have reduced or fullapproximation properties. One choice of direct serendipity supplements gives the precursor of the recently introduced Arbogast–Correa spaces (SIAM J Numer Anal 54:3332–3356, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1013705). Otherfullydirect serendipity supplements can be defined without the use of mappings from reference elements, and these give rise in turn tofullydirect mixed spaces. Our development is constructive, so we are able to give global bases for our spaces. Numerical results are presented to illustrate their properties.