Implementation of hierarchical bases in FEMLAB for simplicial elements

  • Authors:
  • Jianguo Xin;Katia Pinchedez;Joseph E. Flaherty

  • Affiliations:
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY;Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany;Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS)
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present the implementation of well-conditioned hierarchical bases for one-dimensional, triangular and tetrahedral elements in finite element FEMLAB software. Using the domain mesh information provided by FEMLAB, we found an easy way to maintain the continuity of solution across the interelement boundaries. The conditionings of the global stiffness matrices of several standard problems are compared with the Lagrange bases and are smaller for all cases.