| Issue |
ESAIM: M2AN
Volume 50, Number 3, May-June 2016
Special Issue – Polyhedral discretization for PDE
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| Page(s) | 833 - 850 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/m2an/2015089 | |
| Published online | 23 May 2016 | |
Constructions of some minimal finite element systems
1
Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo,
PO Box 1053 Blindern,
0316
Oslo,
Norway
snorrec@math.uio.no
2
Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona,
PO Box 210089, Tucson, Arizona, USA
agillette@math.arizona.edu
Received: 17 April 2015
Revised: 20 October 2015
Within the framework of finite element systems, we show how spaces of differential forms may be constructed, in such a way that they are equipped with commuting interpolators and contain prescribed functions, and are minimal under these constraints. We show how various known mixed finite element spaces fulfill such a design principle, including trimmed polynomial differential forms, serendipity elements and TNT elements. We also comment on virtual element methods and provide a dimension formula for minimal compatible finite element systems containing polynomials of a given degree on hypercubes.
Mathematics Subject Classification: 65N30
Key words: finite element systems / differential forms / virtual element methods / Serendipity elements / TNT elements
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