Okay I see. Its just a third order bubble, sometimes I send mail before I think. The mini element is a first order bubble or at least that's what Brezzi Fortin say.
-- Andy On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:43 PM, <m...@simula.no> wrote: >> Is there anything telling how the bubble functions are defined? >> >> For example with the Mini example: >> >> P1 = VectorElement("Lagrange", "triangle", 1) >> B = VectorElement("Bubble", "triangle", 3) >> Q = FiniteElement("Lagrange", "triangle", 1) >> Mini = (P1 + B) * Q >> >> Does B consist of 3 bubble functions in some symmetric pattern in the >> element? >> > > The bubble functions are the bubble functions ;) > > In the above example, B is the span of the piecewise continuous > cubic functions that are zero on the boundary of each triangle. > (1 per triangle for a FiniteElement and hence 2 per triangle for a > VectorElement of value dimension 2.) > > In general, the bubble finite element of degree k is the span of the interior > basis functions of CG_k. > > -- > Marie > > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ffc Post to : ffc@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ffc More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp