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We construct finite element subspaces of the space of symmetric tensors with square-integrable divergence on a three-dimensional domain. These spaces can be used to approximate the stress field in the classical Hellinger--Reissner mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou , Ragnar Winther

This paper constructs two conforming finite element grad grad and elasticity complexes on the cuboid meshes. For the finite element grad grad complex, an $H^2$ conforming finite element space, an $\boldsymbol{H}(\operatorname{curl};…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-09 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Ting Lin

We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element's shape with the divergence properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-07-23 Rémi Abgrall , Élise Le Mélédo , Philipp Öffner

We investigate discretization of $H(\mathrm{curl})$ and $H(\mathrm{div})$ in two and three space dimensions by partially discontinuous nodal finite elements, i.e., vector-valued Lagrange finite elements with discontinuity in certain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Jun Hu , Kaibo Hu , Qian Zhang

In the field of solving partial differential equations (PDEs), Hilbert complexes have become highly significant. Recent advances focus on creating new complexes using the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) framework, as shown by Arnold and Hu…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

In this paper, we construct discrete versions of some Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand (BGG) complexes, i.e., the Hessian and the divdiv complexes, on triangulations in 2D and 3D. The sequences consist of finite elements with local polynomial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Kaibo Hu , Ting Lin , Qian Zhang

We develop the theory of mixed finite elements in terms of special inverse systems of complexes of differential forms, defined over cellular complexes. Inclusion of cells corresponds to pullback of forms. The theory covers for instance…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-25 Snorre Harald Christiansen

We give a new, simple, dimension-independent definition of the serendipity finite element family. The shape functions are the span of all monomials which are linear in at least s-r of the variables where s is the degree of the monomial or,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-01-29 Douglas N. Arnold , Gerard Awanou

The aim of this article is to derive discontinuous finite elements vector spaces which can be put in a discrete de-Rham complex for which an harmonic gap property may be proven. First, discontinuous finite element spaces inspired by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-01-16 Vincent Perrier

In this work, merging ideas from compatible discretisations and polyhedral methods, we construct novel fully discrete polynomial de Rham sequences of arbitrary degree on polygons and polyhedra. The spaces and operators that appear in these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Daniele A. Di Pietro , Jérôme Droniou , Francesca Rapetti

We propose and analyze a new family of nonconforming finite elements for the three-dimensional quad-curl problem. The proposed finite element spaces are subspaces of $\pmb{H}(\mathrm{curl})$, but not of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-27 Baiju Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

We propose two general operations on finite element differential complexes on cubical meshes that can be used to construct and analyze sequences of "nonstandard" convergent methods. The first operation, called DoF-transfer, moves edge…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-04-13 Andrew Gillette , Kaibo Hu , Shuo Zhang

This paper presents the first family of conforming finite element divdiv complexes on tetrahedral grids in three dimensions. In these complexes, finite element spaces of $H(\text{divdiv},\Omega;\mathbb{S})$ are from a current preprint [Chen…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Rui Ma

In this paper, we present explicit expressions for conforming finite element function spaces, basis functions, and degrees of freedom on the pentatope and tetrahedral prism elements. More generally, our objective is to construct finite…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-15 David M. Williams , Nilima Nigam

We present degrees of freedom to accompany the approximation spaces already presented in a companion paper and thus complete the definition of families of high-order conforming finite elements on pyramids for the spaces of the de Rham…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-10-29 Nilima Nigam , Joel Phillips

We construct H(curl) and H(div) conforming finite elements on convex polygons and polyhedra with minimal possible degrees of freedom, i.e., the number of degrees of freedom is equal to the number of edges or faces of the polygon/polyhedron.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-02-06 Wenbin Chen , Yanqiu Wang

A finite element cochain complex on Cartesian meshes of any dimension based on the H1-inner product is introduced. It yields H1-conforming finite element spaces with exterior derivatives in H1. We use a tensor product construction to obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-07-04 Francesca Bonizzoni , Guido Kanschat

We present a class of discretisation spaces and H(div)-conformal elements that can be built on any polytope. Bridging the flexibility of the Virtual Element spaces towards the element's shape with the divergence properties of the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Rémi Abgrall , Élise Le Mélédo , Philipp Öffner

In general $n$-dimensional simplicial meshes, we propose a family of interior penalty nonconforming finite element methods for $2m$-th order partial differential equations, where $m \geq 0$ and $n \geq 1$. For this family of nonconforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-18 Shuonan Wu , Jinchao Xu

Several smooth finite element de Rham complexes are constructed in three-dimensional space, which yield three families of grad-div conforming finite elements. The simplest element has only 8 degrees of freedom (DOFs) for a tetrahedron and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang