Numerical integration for high-order pyramidal finite elements

DOI10.1051/M2AN/2011042MaRDI QIDQ2846145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joel Phillips, Nilima Nigam

Publication date 5 September 2013

Published in European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics (ESAIM): Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1003.0495

zbMATH Keywords

consistencyconvergencediscrete de Rham complexhigher-order conforming pyramidal finite element methodsquadrature rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and convergence of numerical methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50)

Abstract: We examine the effect of numerical integration on the convergence of high order pyramidal finite element methods. Rational functions are indispensable to the construction of pyramidal interpolants so the conventional treatment of numerical integration, which requires that the finite element approximation space is piecewise polynomial, cannot be applied. We develop an analysis that allows the finite element approximation space to include rational functions and show that despite this complication, conventional rules of thumb can still be used to select appropriate quadrature methods on pyramids. Along the way, we present a new family of high order pyramidal finite elements for each of the spaces of the de Rham complex.

Review text

This paper is concerned with the study of the accuracy of higher-order conforming pyramidal finite element methods. More precisely, the authors prove that an \(n\)th-order quadrature rule can be used for the integration of bilinear forms involving \(n\)th-order elements without decreasing the overall order of convergence of the method. A unified analysis of the consistency error due to using these quadrature rules for each of the approximation spaces of the discrete de Rham complex is presented.

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