A family of C^1 quadrilateral finite elements

DOI10.1007/S10444-021-09878-3zbMATH Open1480.65339arXiv2005.04251OpenAlexW3214160764WikidataQ114227754 ScholiaQ114227754MaRDI QIDQ824318FDOQ824318

Authors: Mario Kapl, Giancarlo Sangalli, Thomas Takacs 

Publication date: 15 December 2021

Published in: Advances in Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a novel family of $C^1$ quadrilateral finite elements, which define global $C^1$ spaces over a general quadrilateral mesh with vertices of arbitrary valency. The elements extend the construction by (Brenner and Sung, J. Sci. Comput., 2005), which is based on polynomial elements of tensor-product degree $pgeq6$, to all degrees $pgeq3$. Thus, we call the family of $C^1$ finite elements Brenner-Sung quadrilaterals. The proposed $C^1$ quadrilateral can be seen as a special case of the Argyris isogeometric element of (Kapl, Sangalli and Takacs, CAGD, 2019). The quadrilateral elements possess similar degrees of freedom as the classical Argyris triangles. Just as for the Argyris triangle, we additionally impose $C^2$ continuity at the vertices. In this paper we focus on the lower degree cases, that may be desirable for their lower computational cost and better conditioning of the basis: We consider indeed the polynomial quadrilateral of (bi-)degree~$5$, and the polynomial degrees $p=3$ and $p=4$ by employing a splitting into $3imes3$ or $2imes2$ polynomial pieces, respectively. The proposed elements reproduce polynomials of total degree $p$. We show that the space provides optimal approximation order. Due to the interpolation properties, the error bounds are local on each element. In addition, we describe the construction of a simple, local basis and give for $pin3,4,5$ explicit formulas for the B'{e}zier or B-spline coefficients of the basis functions. Numerical experiments by solving the biharmonic equation demonstrate the potential of the proposed $C^1$ quadrilateral finite element for the numerical analysis of fourth order problems, also indicating that (for $p=5$) the proposed element performs comparable or in general even better than the Argyris triangle with respect to the number of degrees of freedom.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04251

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zbMATH Keywords

B-splinesquadrilateral finite elements\(C^1\) quadrilaterals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Biharmonic, polyharmonic functions and equations, Poisson's equation in two dimensions (31A30)

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