Special Session 58: Recent Advances in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations

A Construction of $C^r$ Conforming Finite Element Spaces in Any Dimension

Jun Hu
Peking University
Peoples Rep of China
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Abstract:
This talk proposes a construction of $C^r$ conforming finite element spaces with arbitrary $r$ in any dimension. It is shown that if $k \ge 2^{d}r+1$ the space $P_k$ of polynomials of degree $\le k$ can be taken as the shape function space of $C^r$ finite element spaces in $d$ dimensions. This is the first work on constructing such $C^r$ conforming finite elements in any dimension in a unified way.