Adaptive Mesh Refinement Strategies in Isogeometric Analysis - A Computational Comparison
arXiv:1605.00825 · doi:10.1016/j.cma.2016.07.029
Abstract
We explain four variants of an adaptive finite element method with cubic splines and compare their performance in simple elliptic model problems. The methods in comparison are Truncated Hierarchical B-splines with two different refinement strategies, T-splines with the refinement strategy introduced by Scott et al. in 2012, and T-splines with an alternative refinement strategy introduced by some of the authors. In four examples, including singular and non-singular problems of linear elasticity and the Poisson problem, the H1-errors of the discrete solutions, the number of degrees of freedom as well as sparsity patterns and condition numbers of the discretized problem are compared.
23 pages, 21 Figures
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