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ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 102
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
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Paper 210

Numerical Efficiency of Minimum Energy Bases for the High Order Finite Element Method

C.F. Rodrigues and M.L. Bittencourt

Department of Mechanical Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
University of Campinas, Brazil

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
C.F. Rodrigues, M.L. Bittencourt, "Numerical Efficiency of Minimum Energy Bases for the High Order Finite Element Method", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 210, 2013. doi:10.4203/ccp.102.210
Keywords: minimum energy basis, simultaneous diagonalization, high-order finite element method.

Summary
Generally, the high order finite element method (p-FEM) is associated with the use of numerical models and efficient algorithms. This is evident since in the p-FEM, the convergence of the solution is obtained using a fixed mesh and varying the order of the interpolating functions. A direct consequence when increasing the polynomial order is the sudden increase of the matrix rank.

This paper discusses a formulation for constructing the minimum energy basis in a high order approach, applied to Helmholtz problems. We consider the simultaneous diagonalization of the matrices internal modes, together with the minimum energy orthogonalization of boundary modes. The obtained basis are verified through numerical tests using the conjugate gradient method, with distorted and undistorted element meshes.

The basis efficiency is analysed in terms of the number of iterations to convergence and the matrix conditioning associated to the approximation problem in 2D and 3D domains.

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