We study the extensions of the Bogner-Fox-Schmit element to the whole family of Q_(k) continuously differentiable finite elements on rectangular grids,for all k≥3,in 2D and 3D.We show that the newly defined C_(1) spa...We study the extensions of the Bogner-Fox-Schmit element to the whole family of Q_(k) continuously differentiable finite elements on rectangular grids,for all k≥3,in 2D and 3D.We show that the newly defined C_(1) spaces are maximal in the sense that they contain all C_(1)-Q_(k) functions of piecewise polynomials.We give examples of other extensions of C_(1)-Q_(k) elements.The result is consistent with the Strang’s conjecture(restricted to the quadrilateral grids in 2D and 3D).Some numerical results are provided on the family of C_(1) elements solving the biharmonic equation.展开更多
文摘We study the extensions of the Bogner-Fox-Schmit element to the whole family of Q_(k) continuously differentiable finite elements on rectangular grids,for all k≥3,in 2D and 3D.We show that the newly defined C_(1) spaces are maximal in the sense that they contain all C_(1)-Q_(k) functions of piecewise polynomials.We give examples of other extensions of C_(1)-Q_(k) elements.The result is consistent with the Strang’s conjecture(restricted to the quadrilateral grids in 2D and 3D).Some numerical results are provided on the family of C_(1) elements solving the biharmonic equation.
