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A family of conforming virtual element Hessian complexes on tetrahedral meshes are constructed based on decompositions of polynomial tensor spaces. They are applied to discretize the linearized time-independent Einstein-Bianchi system with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

In this paper, we discuss how to efficiently evaluate and assemble general finite element variational forms on H(div) and H(curl). The proposed strategy relies on a decomposition of the element tensor into a precomputable reference tensor…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Marie Rognes , Robert C. Kirby , Anders Logg

A nonconforming $P_3$ finite element is constructed by enriching the conforming $P_3$ finite element space with three $P_3$ nonconforming bubbles and six additional $P_4$ nonconforming bubbles, on each tetrahedron. Here the divergence of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-08-21 Xuejun Xu , Shangyou Zhang

We construct conforming finite element elasticity complexes on Worsey-Farin splits in three dimensions. Spaces for displacement, strain, stress, and the load are connected in the elasticity complex through the differential operators…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Sining Gong , Jay Gopalakrishnan , Johnny Guzmán , Michael Neilan

We construct finite element Stokes complexes on tetrahedral meshes in three-dimensional space. In the lowest order case, the finite elements in the complex have 4, 18, 16, and 1 degrees of freedom, respectively. As a consequence, we obtain…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Kaibo Hu , Qian Zhang , Zhimin Zhang

Three-dimensional $N^{th}$ order nodal Lagrangian tetrahedral finite elements ($P_N$ elements) can be generated using Pascal's tetrahedron $\mathcal{H}$ where each node in 3D element space corresponds to an entry in $\mathcal{H}$. For the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Mark W. Lohry

This paper introduces a new family of mixed finite elements for solving a mixed formulation of the biharmonic equations in two and three dimensions. The symmetric stress $\bm{\sigma}=-\nabla^{2}u$ is sought in the Sobolev space…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Min Zhang

This paper considers the cohomology and bounded interpolation of nonstandard finite element complexes, e.g. Stokes, Hessian, Elasticity, divdiv. Compared to the standard finite element exterior calculus, the main challenge is the existence…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-30 Jun Hu , Yizhou Liang , Ting Lin

The T-product for third-order tensors has been used extensively in the literature. In this paper, we first introduce the first-order and second-order T-derivatives for the multi-vector real-valued function with the tensor T-product; and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-22 Meng-Meng Zheng , Zheng-Hai Huang , Yong Wang

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

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

We introduce variants of Regge finite element metrics with enhanced properties of the trace. In particular the trace operator is surjective to a finite element space of continuous functions. Multiplying these scalar functions by the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Snorre H. Christiansen , Ting Lin

We develop tensor product finite element cochain complexes of arbitrary smoothness on Cartesian meshes of arbitrary dimension. The first step is the construction of a one-dimensional $C^m$-conforming finite element cochain complex based on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Francesca Bonizzoni , Guido Kanschat

Edge (or N\'ed\'elec) finite elements are theoretically sound and widely used by the computational electromagnetics community. However, its implementation, specially for high order methods, is not trivial, since it involves many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-20 Marc Olm , Santiago Badia , Alberto F. Martín

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

This paper constructs the first mixed finite element for the linear elasticity problem in 3D using $P_3$ polynomials for the stress and discontinuous $P_2$ polynomials for the displacement on tetrahedral meshes under some mild mesh…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Yuanxun Sun

Third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensors play an important role in physics and tensor representation theory. A minimal integrity basis of a third order three-dimensional symmetric and traceless tensor has four…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-21 Yannan Chen , Shenglong Hu , Liqun Qi , Wennan Zou

One of the main issues in computing a tensor decomposition is how to choose the number of rank-one components, since there is no finite algorithms for determining the rank of a tensor. A commonly used approach for this purpose is to find a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Claudio Turchetti

Classical continuum mechanical theories operate on three-dimensional Eu-clidian space using scalar, vector, and tensor-valued quantities usually up to the order of four. For their numerical treatment, it is common practice to transform the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Thomas Nagel , Uwe-Jens Görke , Kevin M. Moerman , Olaf Kolditz

A family of stable mixed finite elements for the linear elasticity on tetrahedral grids are constructed, where the stress is approximated by symmetric $H(\d)$-$P_k$ polynomial tensors and the displacement is approximated by…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-06-22 Jun Hu , Shangyou Zhang