Two tetrahedral C1 cubic macro elements

  • Authors:
  • Peter Alfeld;Tatyana Sorokina

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, 155 South 1400 East, JWB 233, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, United States;Department of Mathematics, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, United States

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Approximation Theory
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We propose two tetrahedral C^1 cubic macro elements that are constructed locally on one tetrahedron without any knowledge of the geometry of neighboring tetrahedra. Among such geometrically unconstrained local polynomial tetrahedral C^1 schemes requiring only first order derivative data, our macro elements have the smallest number of coefficients. The resulting macro element spaces are stable and provide full approximation power. We give explicit formulae that can be used to implement our schemes.