A fast \(hp\) adaptive finite element mesh design (Q1590352)

The authors present a new \(hp\) adaptive strategy based on the local minimization of the number of equations for a given error level. This formulation leads to a nonlinear one-variable equation for each element. That may easily to be solved by a fixed point algorithm. The new \(h\) and \(p\) parameters are simultaneously obtained at each element of the mesh for the next iteration. The goal of this work is to propose a formulation applicable to 2D and 3D boundary value problems with the minimum previous knowledge about the topology of the spaces in which the solution is inserted. In order to satisfy these requirement, many hypothesis are assumed. Numerical results obtained with only four iterations are as good as those obtained through the conventional procedure by using four or five times more iterations for the regular problems.