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Partially discontinuous nodal finite elements for $H(\mathrm{curl})$ and $H(\mathrm{div})$

Numerical Analysis 2022-03-07 v1 Numerical Analysis Computational Physics

Abstract

We investigate discretization of H(curl)H(\mathrm{curl}) and H(div)H(\mathrm{div}) in two and three space dimensions by partially discontinuous nodal finite elements, i.e., vector-valued Lagrange finite elements with discontinuity in certain directions. These spaces can be implemented as a combination of continuous and discontinuous Lagrange elements and fit in de~Rham complexes. We construct well-conditioned nodal bases.

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@article{arxiv.2203.02103,
  title  = {Partially discontinuous nodal finite elements for $H(\mathrm{curl})$ and $H(\mathrm{div})$},
  author = {Jun Hu and Kaibo Hu and Qian Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.02103},
  year   = {2022}
}

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19 pages

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