Title
Adaptive finite element methods for elliptic equations over hierarchical T-meshes
Abstract
Isogeometric analysis using NURBS (Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines) as basis functions gives accurate representation of the geometry and the solution but it is not well suited for local refinement. In this paper, we use the polynomial splines over hierarchical T-meshes (PHT-splines) to construct basis functions which not only share the nice smoothness properties as the B-splines, but also allow us to effectively refine meshes locally. We develop a residual-based a posteriori error estimate for the finite element discretization of elliptic equations using PHT-splines basis functions and study their approximation properties. In addition, we conduct numerical experiments to verify the theory and to demonstrate the effectiveness of the error estimate and the high order approximations provided by the numerical solution.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.cam.2011.05.016
J. Computational Applied Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
elliptic equation,finite element,approximation property
Discretization,Mathematical optimization,Polygon mesh,Isogeometric analysis,A priori and a posteriori,Finite element method,Basis function,Polynomial splines,Smoothness,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
236
5
0377-0427
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.52
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Li Tian191.78
Falai Chen240332.47
Qiang Du31692188.27