Spline spaces on TR-meshes with hanging vertices (Q634606)

The authors investigate spline spaces defined on meshes with hanging triangles. In particular, the dimension of such spline spaces, their approximation power, and the construction of basis functions are discussed. The focus of the paper lies on \(C^0\) splines on so-called TR-meshes, i.e., meshes that allow both triangles and rectangles. Properties of TR-meshes are explored and it is shown how Bernstein-Bézier methods may be employed to work with polynomial splines on such TR-meshes. A formula for the dimension of the space \(\mathcal{S}^r_d (\Delta)\) of polynomial splines of degree \(d\) and smoothness \(r\) associated with a TR-mesh \(\Delta\) is derived. Finally, a basis for \(\mathcal{S}^r_d (\Delta)\) is constructed and results regarding the approximation power of this spline space are presented.