High order gradient, curl and divergence conforming spaces, with an application to NURBS-based IsoGeometric Analysis
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arXiv1209.1793MaRDI QIDQ6235535FDOQ6235535
Authors: R. R. Hiemstra, R. H. M. Huijsmans, M. I. Gerritsma 
Publication date: 9 September 2012
Abstract: Conservation laws, in for example, electromagnetism, solid and fluid mechanics, allow an exact discrete representation in terms of line, surface and volume integrals. We develop high order interpolants, from any basis that is a partition of unity, that satisfy these integral relations exactly, at cell level. The resulting gradient, curl and divergence conforming spaces have the property that the conservation laws become completely independent of the basis functions. This means that the conservation laws are exactly satisfied even on curved meshes. As an example, we develop high order gradient, curl and divergence conforming spaces from NURBS - non uniform rational B-splines - and thereby generalize the compatible spaces of B-splines developed by Buffa et al.[1]. We give several examples of 2D Stokes flow calculations which result, amongst others, in a point wise divergence free velocity field.
Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Stokes and related (Oseen, etc.) flows (76D07) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)
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