A High-Order Surface Finite Element Method Based on Intersections with Background Tetrahedral Meshes

DOI10.48550/arXiv.2608.07000MaRDI QIDQ7284686arXivFDO

Authors Zibo Zhao, Zuoqiang Shi

Publication date 7 August 2026

Published in arXiv

Tldr We develop a high-order surface finite element method using intersections with ambient tetrahedral meshes for elliptic equations on smooth surfaces implicitly defined by level-set functions; this novel approach combines surface FEM and unfitted methods to yield conforming spaces from background geometry, with provable stability and error estimates.

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.07000

arXiv classification

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