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Continuous spline functions are defined as piecewise polynomials on the faces of a polyhedral complex that agree on the intersections of two faces. Splines are used in approximation theory and numerical analysis, with applications in data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Shaheen Nazir , Anne Schilling , Julianna Tymoczko

This paper presents an immersed, isogeometric finite element framework to predict the response of multi-material, multi-physics problems with complex geometries using locally refined discretizations. To circumvent the need to generate…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-12-05 Mathias Schmidt , Lise Noel , Keenan Doble , John A. Evans , Kurt Maute

Computational analysis with the finite element method requires geometrically accurate meshes. It is well known that high-order meshes can accurately capture curved surfaces with fewer degrees of freedom in comparison to low-order meshes.…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Ketan Mittal , Veselin A. Dobrev , Patrick Knupp , Tzanio Kolev , Franck Ledoux , Claire Roche , Vladimir Z. Tomov

New low-order $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors are constructed in arbitrary dimension. The space of shape functions is defined by enriching the symmetric quadratic polynomial space with the $(d+1)$-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Yangxing Zhu

We used a collocation method in refinable spline space to solve a linear dynamical system having fractional derivative in time. The method takes advantage of an explicit derivation rule for the B-spline basis that allows us to efficiently…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-03 Enza Pellegrino , Laura Pezza , Francesca Pitolli

We introduce B\'{e}zier projection as an element-based local projection methodology for B-splines, NURBS, and T-splines. This new approach relies on the concept of B\'{e}zier extraction and an associated operation introduced here, spline…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-19 Derek C. Thomas , Michael A. Scott , John A. Evans , Kevin Tew , Emily J. Evans

We introduce a numerical method for reconstructing a multidimensional surface using the gradient of the surface measured at some values of the coordinates. The method consists of defining a multidimensional spline function and minimizing…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Gergely Endrodi

The paper is concerned with three types of cubic splines over a triangulation that are characterized by three degrees of freedom associated with each vertex of the triangulation. The splines differ in computational complexity, polynomial…

Invariant-based models for incompressible isotropic hyperelasticity are typically formulated as functions of the first and second invariants, $W = W(\bar{I}_1, \bar{I}_2)$. A widely used class of models employs separable representations of…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Simon Wiesheier , Miguel Angel Moreno-Mateos , Paul Steinmann

Boundary problem for linear partial differential algebraic equations system with multiple characteristic curves is considered. It is supposed that matrix-functions pencil of the system under consideration is smoothly equivalent to special…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-03-27 Svetlana Gaidomak

In this paper, two nonconforming finite element schemes that use piecewise cubic and piecewise quartic polynomials respectively are constructed for the planar biharmonic equation with optimal convergence rates on general shape-regular…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-05-11 Shuo Zhang

Finite element de Rham complexes and finite element Stokes complexes with various smoothness in three dimensions are systematically constructed. First smooth scalar finite elements in three dimensions are derived through a non-overlapping…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-06-22 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

In this paper, we introduce a new function related to the sum of element orders of finite groups. It is used to give some criteria for a finite group to be cyclic, abelian, nilpotent, supersolvable and solvable, respectively.

Group Theory · Mathematics 2019-04-09 Marius Tărnăuceanu

B-splines of order $k$ can be viewed as a mapping $N$ taking a $(k+1)$-tuple of increasing real numbers $a_0 < \cdots < a_k$ and giving as a result a certain piecewise polynomial function. Looking at this mapping $N$ as a whole, basic…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Anna Kamont , Markus Passenbrunner

The matrix formation associated to high-order discretizations is known to be numerically demanding. Based on the existing procedure of interpolation and lookup, we design a multiscale assembly procedure to reduce the exorbitant assembly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Thibaut Hirschler , Pablo Antolin , Annalisa Buffa

The space of $C^1$ cubic Clough-Tocher splines is a classical finite element approximation space over triangulations for solving partial differential equations. However, for such a space there is no B-spline basis available, which is a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Jan Grošelj , Hendrik Speleers

The local refinement of PHT-splines (polynomial splines over hierarchical T-meshes) is achieved by a simple cross insertion, which may introduce superfluous control points or coefficients. By allowing split-in-half in mesh refinement,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-04-18 Qian Ni , Xuhui Wang , Jiansong Deng

In this paper, we consider $C^1$ cubic Powell-Sabin splines for the numerical solution of boundary value problems on planar and spatial surface domains. We first review the construction and basic properties of polynomial and rational $C^1$…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Jan Grošelj , Ada Šadl Praprotnik , Hendrik Speleers

We introduce a new class of unfitted finite element methods with high order accurate numerical integration over curved surfaces and volumes which are only implicitly defined by level set functions. An unfitted finite element method which is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-12-10 Christoph Lehrenfeld

Complex geometries as common in industrial applications consist of multiple patches, if spline based parametrizations are used. The requirements for the generation of analysis-suitable models are increasing dramatically since isogeometric…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Christian Hesch , Ustim Khristenko , Rolf Krause , Alexander Popp , Alexander Seitz , Wolfgang Wall , Barbara Wohlmuth
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