A Review of Regular Decompositions of Vector Fields: Continuous, Discrete, and Structure-Preserving
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2020
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We elaborate so-called regular decompositions of vector fields on a three-dimensional Lipschitz domain where the field and its rotation/divergence belong to L2 and where the tangential/normal component of the field vanishes on a sufficiently smooth “Dirichlet” part of the boundary. We impose no restrictions on the topology of the domain, its boundary, or the Dirichlet boundary parts.
The field is split into a regular vector field, whose Cartesian components lie in H1 and vanish on the Dirichlet boundary, and a remainder contained in the kernel of the rotation/divergence operator. The decomposition is proved to be stable not only in the natural norms, but also with respect to the L2 norm. Besides, for special cases of mixed boundary conditions, we show the existence of H1-regular potentials that characterize the range of the rotation and divergence operator.
We conclude with results on discrete counterparts of regular decompositions for spaces of low-order discrete differential forms on simplicial meshes. Essentially, all results for function spaces carry over, though local correction terms may be necessary. These discrete regular decompositions have become an important tool in finite element exterior calculus (FEEC) and for the construction of preconditioners.
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Spectral and High Order Methods for Partial Differential Euqations, ICOSAHOM 2018
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134
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45 - 60
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Springer
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12th International Conference on Spectral and High-Order Methods (ICOSAHOM 2018)
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03632 - Hiptmair, Ralf / Hiptmair, Ralf
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